Re: Working out a OS X 10.4 Tiger ssh implementation issue, slow logins

on 6/6/05 9:22 AM, David Benfell at benfell@parts-unknown.org wrote:

> On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:20:28 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote:
> > There are scattered reports, and various solutions to an issue where ssh
> > logins take in excess of 30 seconds to instantiate a connection to a remote
> > host.  There are various workarounds, but there is no consensus.
> <snip>
> > debug3: Trying to reverse map address ip.add.re.ss.
> <snip>
>
> > If I change to my own recursive resolver, the problem does go away.
> > However, this was not needed in 10.2 or 10.3 OS X. So in some ways, it does
> > seem to be DNS related, but I am not sure just exactly where.
> <snip>
>
> I just compared the man pages for sshd_config from a 10.3 system and a
> 10.4 system.  In the 10.4 system, the VerifyReverseMapping option is
> missing.  I would suggest adding this option with an argument of No.

Isnt sshd_config for the remote server end of the deal, not the client side,
which is what is hanging?
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