ssh password delay

[Gary Smithe]

> I have done quite a bit of googling and I realize that the problem
> likely has something to do with reverse DNS lookups.  But, I don't know
> how to pinpoint the problem from there.  I've basically been playing
> with the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts settings.  In my hosts file, I
> have an entry for the private IP of my Linux box with its hostname
> (which is not a FQDN) and my resolv.conf file looks like:
>
> domain myrealdomain.com //I just added this, but no noticeable help
> search myrealdomain.com
> nameserver my.ip's.dns.numbers
> nameserver my.ip's.dns.numbers2
>
[SNIP]
> TIA,
> backdoc
>

If that is your resolv.conf, then that explains some things.  Your box
is looking at the ISP for name resolution and the ISP has no idea (nor
could care) what your internal LAN address space is.  Change the
resolv.conf to look at itself (127.0.0.1) and setup BIND with some
simple DNS and RDNS records.  You could use pretty much any box on
your network for DNS, but the key is that it has to know about the
internal space.

GS