ssh- lagging logins
David Magda
dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca
Wed Apr 19 22:29:37 UTC 2006
On Apr 19, 2006, at 00:16, Low Kian Seong wrote:
> Cyberhigh,
>
> Well, you can always try to find out what is going on my passing
> the '-vvv'
> parameter to ssh while it's trying to access the remote machine.
>
> On 4/19/06, CyBerHigh <cyberhigh at gurusnetwork.org> wrote:
>>
>> I am using Freebsd 6.0 and running Openssh. All of a sudden it takes
>> nearly 4 minutes to conferm that my password is correct. It has
>> never
>> done this to me and all of a sudden it started it. I haven't even
>> update the ports collection or anything so there is no reason I can
>> think of way it would just start?
>>
>> Does anyone else have this problem?
You may want to check your DNS infrastructure / settings. SSHd does
lookups to make sure that forward and reverse mappings are the same.
If there's an issue with DNS, then these lookups may take a while.
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