From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 27 11:13:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67C237B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19978; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:13:47 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:13:46 -0500 To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: SSH login delay Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:03 AM -0600 3/27/01, 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 ? When I've seen this, it is sometimes caused by problems in reverse-DNS resolution. If you're going from machine A to machine B and it is slow, then once you are on machine B try to DNS lookups on the IP address of machine A. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message