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Date:      Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:12:15 -0700
From:      John Calderon <john@timogen.com>
To:        anderson@centtech.com
Cc:        Guy Poizat <poizat@partsonline.fr>, George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SSH login delay
Message-ID:  <3ACE231F.664FA8D9@timogen.com>
References:  <5.0.2.1.0.20010328113829.01ac0d30@pop.partsonline.fr> <3AC4A923.87D7F20C@centtech.com>

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also there are some serious delays with large sites > 60000 and also if you start
ssh out of inetd.

john

Eric Anderson wrote:

> Actually, we had the same problem.. run the patches to openssh on the
> server side (and client side if you can) and it should fix it..
>
> Guy Poizat wrote:
> >
> > At 16:03 27/03/2001, you 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.
> > >
> > >This is observed on the latest release of FreeBSD.
> >
> > Perhaps it has somethin' to deal with DNS lookup failure (timeout->delay) ?
> > Can all of your hosts get a reply for a DNS query about each others ?
> >
> > I got that kind of problem and solved it by ading a BIND serving for my
> > NATed hosts.
> >
> > --
> >                  Guy Poizat
> >             poizat@partsonline.fr
> >
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