That is most likely the cause. Do you see this problem when you refer
to a local host by its ip address?
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 17:27:44 -0600, "Scott Harney"
<scotth@scottharney.com> said:
> David John wrote:
> > Hello All,
>
> Is it slow just when you intially connect and then the session is fine?
> If so, it's probably reverse DNS lookup timing out. Set up reverse DNS
> if you can on your LAN or edit sshd_config and change UseDNS to No.
>
> >
> > I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 with the latest ports. I Installed OpenSSH
> > 3.6.1 from ports with the default configuration. Everything works
> > great, well almost. For some reason SSH is extremely slow, scp too.
> > It works but it's just really slow.
> >
> > The weird part is, while I was installing FreeBSD/OpenSSH at home,
> > SSH worked flawlessly. It's only when I run it on the LAN at work
> > that SSH gets real slow ( > 30 seconds to login.)
> >
> > I have a RedHat Enterprise box with OpenSSH 3.6.1 (from RPM) and all
> > works fine. (It's on a service network though so probably a bad
> > example.)
> >
> > It seems like it's only related to OpenSSH on FreeBSD. I have
> > another FreeBSD 5.3 box running Qmail & OpenSSH. It behaves the same
> > way with ssh being very slow. (Qmail runs fine.)
> >
> > Could another machine/protocol/whatever on the LAN be causing the
> > SSH latency? If so, anyone know about or ever had this problem?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > David John
> >
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