From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 25 18:25:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2536816A41F for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:25:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrtanis@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF64543D62 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:25:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrtanis@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m18so307590nfc for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:25:16 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=faAYjaE/uXEE8uT9ISZWTETbyIZinxJjpp0hu1ObPwgs7oGygInf6VV8eBxNpFbZwVKuTvwnnpG59p4qceRYsD1QN7UYPxPr5wqbVUVJ517N5BEiKpqOKEq344ETZQlr2WLZnJ3kMlgTHSWKbkFeOFa7/uDXC6+QAMoaomPZjvY= Received: by 10.48.255.7 with SMTP id c7mr202406nfi; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:25:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.216.10 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:25:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <65dcde740512251025j32d3d9b4pf5af57daa2553856@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:25:16 -0500 From: James Tanis Sender: jrtanis@gmail.com To: Rostislav Krasny In-Reply-To: <59e2ee810512250841t75157e62rec9dc389ac716534@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <59e2ee810512250841t75157e62rec9dc389ac716534@mail.gmail.com> Cc: "Michael A. Koerber" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert , Marian Hettwer Subject: Re: SSH login takes very long time...sometimes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:25:21 -0000 I wouldn't be surprised if there is actually more going on, their were times before I entered my local network into my hosts file that authentication would completely time out and drop the client. It usually only happened when using my ISP's dns server and not my local caching server, but still, their dns server isn't *that* slow :P. On 12/25/05, Rostislav Krasny wrote: > Hi, > > I had submitted a bin/62139 PR because of the same problem about a > year ago. I still think there is a bug somewhere in a resolver(3) > library or in libc functions like gethostbyname(). Because of this bug > the gethostbyname() doubles the number of its reverse resolving > requests, in a case the DNS server isn't responding. The other reason > for very long waiting is a default configuration of resolver(5). In > most other systems RES_DFLRETRY is defined as 2, but in FreeBSD it is > defined as 4. In a case the DNS server isn't responding the > gethostbyname() makes 8 (eight!) reverse resolving attempts for one > (!) non-responding DNS server before it returns error. And this is by > default. All that is still true for my current 6.0-STABLE. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dbin/62139 > > As a workaround I may suggest addind "options attempts:2" or even > "options attempts:1" line to the /etc/resolver.conf > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- James Tanis jtanis@pycoder.org http://pycoder.org