ssh scp question

[Tyler Aviss]

Anyone remember HOW to disable SSH reverse lookups?

On 2011-01-03 2:29 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
wrote:

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 04:13:50PM -0500, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> i notice when i do a scp from my l...
Usually reverse dns lookup timeout.

If the box you ssh to has dns enabled (and most do of course), it will
try to do a reverse lookup on your IP.  Of course if you don't have
reverse dns setup for your local network, this won't resolve, and the
dns timeout can take a while.

A hosts file entry for each local machine, or setting up a reverse dns
server for your local network solves it.

Or maybe you could configure sshd to not do a reverse lookup on incoming
connections.

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