[svlug] ssh connecting very slowly

[skip evans]

Hi all,

In preparation for co-locating my server (FreeBSD 4.9), I was checking 
things out
and when I tried to connect through ssh from my Linux workstation,
it did so, but took about two minutes to prompt for the password,
after issueing 'ssh-l sevans 192.168.1.100' to the server.

I remember a very similar issue with ftp, and was advised to add the
IP addresses of the workstation to the /etc/hosts file on the server,
which fixed that one.

The IP addresses are in the hosts file, but ssh still takes a long time to
connect.

Does ssh look some place other than /etc/hosts?

I have looked in /etc/ssh, but nothing there strikes me as the source of
the probem.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Skip

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