Did you try sshd -u0 ?

>>>>> "DK" == David Kelly <n4hhe@Yahoo.com> writes:

DK> Nico wrote:
>> Wolfgang Meiners wrote:
>>> Hello, I am using ssh on serveral computers here, one linuxbox,
>>> one OSXbox and one freebsdbox. When i connect to the freebsdbox,
>>> it takes a very long time (about 1 min) to establish the
>>> connection. Therefor i tried
>> Is the FreeBSD box overloaded? And does your client show up in
>> forward and reverse DNS for the FreeBSD box? The almost mandatory
>> DNS and reverse DNS lookups for connecting clients can cause
>> significant delays.

DK> I agree. Have found the FreeBSD sshd insists on doing reverse DNS
DK> lookups no matter what I have tried in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Using
DK> Google suggests this situation is not unusual for others with
DK> Linux.

DK> A properly functioning local caching named cut inside ssh
DK> connection time down from 30 seconds to 5 seconds. FreeBSD
DK> 5.5-Stable on PII-450, Mac OS X, 192.168.0.0/24, both on the same
DK> 10/100 network switch.

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