Starting sshd, ssh connections

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:19:03PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
> There is an entry in /etc/hosts for the hostname and hostnam.domainname for
> its IP
> So far this is the only IP used (besides 127.0.0.1). /etc/resolv.conf
> containts the domainname
> and a nameserver line (nameserver 192.168.254.100)
> What else would be needed?

I suspect your problem is that 192.168.75.8 doesn't resolve to a hostname.
You could possibly put that into /etc/hosts, or put a PTR entry for it in
your DNS.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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> 
> >  On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:04:24PM +0100, n dhert wrote:
> > > 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: ...