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freebsd sshd authentication slow
With Freebsd, the DNS lookup timeout in sshd is very long.
If for whatever reason your DNS servers are slow, SSHing into FreeBSD will also be slow.
Quick fix is to change /etc/resolve.conf and add opendns.com's nameservers
# vi etc/resolve.conf
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
After the change, ssh authentication was faster for me.
You can also try to restart sshd
# cd /etc/rc.d
# ./sshd restart
Which may help...
December 22nd, 2015 - 03:10
Hi Tyron,I would confirm the navseermer entries you are using. Can you ping them? What happens when you try using navseermer 8.8.8.8 in your /etc/resolv.conf? That is Google’s public dns service, freely available.