From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 27 6:38:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C6637B71A for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 06:38:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id C4B811360C; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:38:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:38:40 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH login delay Message-ID: <20010327093839.B65475@peitho.fxp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:03:32AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:03:32AM -0600, George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.ed= u 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 ? >=20 > Sometimes it takes more than a minute when I know it is not network speed= ? >=20 > This behavior makes me suspicious. >=20 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). --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjrApe8ACgkQObaG4P6BelAgjgCggUpfk1KI8VhNYavwi6g21tv6 CFoAnjtYXFRCcuinn9TgooQPSuiAE8Ab =w6Vv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message