On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:29, David Robillard wrote: > >> any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the > >> server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I > >> am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never see > >> this betwe. > > I had this problem when DNS was broken for the FreeBSD server and the > MacOS X client. Make sure the DNS you're using can resolve both > forward and reverse for the client and the server. Then your ssh > session will be fast and free of this error.
If you're not able (or don't want to =)) fix the DNS, you can reconfigure the sshd on the server. Add UseDNS no to it's /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart the ssh daemon (this will make sshd stop to look up the hostnames of the connecting clients) Best regards, Lothar
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