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Very slow connection to a SSH server

2011/11/032015/08/27 ctheroux SSH Ubuntu 11.10

A problem with the DNS configuration on a server can cause the login to the ssh server very slow. I can be fixed by adding the following line

UseDNS no

in the ssh server configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config