Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:38:40 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH login delay Message-ID: <20010327093839.B65475@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <OF08B8FACC.8360436B-ON86256A1C.004D003F@MC.VANDERBILT.EDU>; from George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:03:32AM -0600 References: <OF08B8FACC.8360436B-ON86256A1C.004D003F@MC.VANDERBILT.EDU>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:03:32AM -0600, George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu wrote: > Does any one know what causes the long delay between entering the password > to ssh and the actual logging in of the shell prompt ? > > Sometimes it takes more than a minute when I know it is not network speed ? > > This behavior makes me suspicious. > Sounds like the typical broken DNS. Ensure the host from which you are connecting has proper reverse and forward DNS entries (or /etc/hosts entries on the server-side). -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjrApe8ACgkQObaG4P6BelAgjgCggUpfk1KI8VhNYavwi6g21tv6 CFoAnjtYXFRCcuinn9TgooQPSuiAE8Ab =w6Vv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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