From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 28 2:46: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from routeur.pol.local (nas2-69.nvs.club-internet.fr [195.36.141.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68BB37B720 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from poizat@partsonline.fr) Received: from PARTSERVER.partsonline.fr (partserver.pol.local [172.16.10.10]) by routeur.pol.local (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2SAkEv22018; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:46:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from poizat@partsonline.fr) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010328113829.01ac0d30@pop.partsonline.fr> X-Sender: pop9405@pop.partsonline.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:40:13 +0200 To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Guy Poizat Subject: Re: SSH login delay In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message