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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:41:23 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Guy Poizat <poizat@partsonline.fr>
Cc:        George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSH login delay
Message-ID:  <3AC4A923.87D7F20C@centtech.com>
References:  <5.0.2.1.0.20010328113829.01ac0d30@pop.partsonline.fr>

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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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