Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:40:13 +0200 From: Guy Poizat <poizat@partsonline.fr> To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH login delay Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010328113829.01ac0d30@pop.partsonline.fr> In-Reply-To: <OF08B8FACC.8360436B-ON86256A1C.004D003F@MC.VANDERBILT.EDU>
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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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