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		sdkmvx on Jan 31, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2015: The Year of the OpenBSD Desktop > it took minutes to establish SSH connections between machines on the same LAN Most likely you were using a stupid DNS server that did not respond to reverse queries. See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#RevDNS

wampus on Feb 2, 2015 [–]

Thanks for the tip. I have three resolvers on my LAN, but two of them require the FQDN for reverse lookups. I'll make sure to add "search localdomain" to /etc/resolv.conf next time.

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