ssh- lagging logins

[David Magda]

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.