Ryan J M 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? > The answering sshd will do a reverse DNS lookup on the connecting IP address. That's about the right time to wait for timeouts from 2 DNS servers if they don't respond. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com