Date: 2005-06-26

Description: DNS lookup causes ssh to take a long time to connect.

Affects: 

Summary: ssh takes a long time to connect.

Symptoms: ssh takes a long time to connect.

DNS lookup problem at the sshd server may cause ssh to take
long time to connect. To fix this problem, disable DNS lookups
on the server-side by setting

UseDNS no

in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.  Then, restart sshd service using the command

/etc/init.d/sshd restart