On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 17:59 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Kevin Kempter wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 16:26:12 Phil Meyer wrote: > >> > >> Most DNS failures for ssh are set at about 120 seconds by default. > >> > >> Good Luck! > > > > > > You are exactly correct. Can I tweak the 120 seconds timeout? also can I tell > > ssh to not try the DNS lookup? > > > In /etc/ssh/ssd_config, you can try changing "#UseDNS yes" to > "UseDNS no". (Remember to remove the # at the start of the line!) > You will have to run "service sshd reload" on the target machine so > the changes take affect. ---- just for clarification, it is presumed you are talking about /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the host server ^^ ^^ correcting a typo|| -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>