ssh delays 40 seconds (SOLVED???)

[Robert Marella]

Resending because I did not see it come in ti -questions and I keep 
having mail bounced sending to "Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>".

luke wrote:
> also, you might want to look into the UseDNS option in the sshd_config
> file. this will cause the server to not perform dns lookups on
> connecting hosts.
> 
Luke

Okay, that takes care of the delay. I had to change it to "no" on all
boxes that I ssh into. Does this have any negative ramifications? My
firewall excludes all incoming (at this time) so I am not too worried
about being compromised.

It still leaves the question in my pea brain as to why it has worked for
6 months and just started this nonsense in the last week or so. Did
something change with 5.4?

Thanks for responding.

I want to thank everyone else for responding also. The consensus was
that I need DNS/named working on my gateway/firewall so I will be
reading and studying to have that working in the near future.

Robert