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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:13:46 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SSH login delay
Message-ID:  <p05010400b6e69651daed@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <OF08B8FACC.8360436B-ON86256A1C.004D003F@MC.VANDERBILT.EDU>
References:  <OF08B8FACC.8360436B-ON86256A1C.004D003F@MC.VANDERBILT.EDU>

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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

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