You can disable DNS check in your ssh server. In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config you set "UseDNS" to "no" === UseDNS no === []s ________________________________________________ Renato de Oliveira Diogo Bacharel em Ciência da Computação UNESP - Bauru LPIC1 - Linux Professional Institute Certification - Nível 1 renato.diogo@xxxxxxxxx renato.diogo@xxxxxxxxxxxx On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:22, Jim Perrin <jperrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Ryan J M <sync.jma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The waiting time is about 50s on my CentOS box now. "yum remove >> openssh* "and "yum install openssh*" can't make it right. "mv >> ~/.ssh{,.bak}" not works either. >> Here comes my tcpdump log, I am not an expert on SSH, Can anyone here >> get me out of this? > > Usually ssh slowness is attributed to DNS problems with reverse > lookups. You give ssh a host name to connect to, and it does a query > to find the ip, then a reverse to make sure that the ip is who it > claims to be. If there are no records, ssh will happily wait for the > query to time out before proceeding. This is usually where people > complain about slowness on home networks or in some hosted > environments that aren't set up 100% correctly. The proper fix is to > correct the DNS issue. Some folks simply hand jam an entry into > /etc/hosts, or dive into the sshd_config and disable the check. How > you resolve this is up to you. > > > > -- > During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. > George Orwell > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos