[Tfug] mail problem

[A. Chris Hilton]

> On Monday 05 November 2007 13:14, Jeffry Johnston wrote:
>> Interesting.  I've also been suffering from slow SSH connecting.. maybe
>> it
>> also has something to do with DNS (although that'd be strange as I am
>> using
>> the IP address, but who knows what all ssh is doing behind the scenes,
>> guess I should download the source sometime)
>>
>
> sshd does a reverse lookup of the IP you connect from on the start of a
> new
> session. If DNS is not working (an invalid/unresponsive server, etc.) you
> will see a 10-20sec delay in connecting.
>
> Adrian

Jeff-

You can put 'UseDNS no' in your sshd_config to disable these lookups.

-C-