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Firewalls can create slow SSH logins
Authored by: YoGi on Aug 24, '05 04:15:56PM

I guess with this ipfw rule you block also dns traffic, which normally uses udp. While ssh is trying to resolve the remote hostname during login you have to wait for the timeout.



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