slow login to ssh trough nat to server

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 12:19 -0700, Rick Lim wrote:
> I have a ssh server sitting behind a nat device, when I ssh in from
> the internal network its instant. If I login from the internet thru
> the nat device the ssh login takes about 30 seconds. I'm sure it must
> have something to do with either ssh or pam doing a dns lookup.
> 
> Can't figure out how to fix it, anyone got any suggestions? 

Possibly...  See man sshd_config, go down to UseDNS.

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