Starting sshd, ssh connections

[n dhert]

On a newly installed FreeBSD7.2, when booting it takes a long time to get
past "Starting sshd.".
I'm using the PC only in a private network. The IP of the PC is 192.168.75.8
# ssh root at 192.168.75.8
or  # ssh root at 127.0.0.1
take both 15 seconds to display
Password: ...
At setup, I did specify a hostname, a domainname, a default_router
(192.168.75.14) and
DNS server 192.168.254.100 (in the future to be replace by non-private IPs),

but since I am testing only in a private network and only with IP adresses
(no hostnames)
these are not used.
So what is causing that delay at Start of sshd and use of ssh?