Re: SSH login delay

From: Chris Faulhaber (jedgar@fxp.org)
Date: 03/27/01 

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:38:40 -0500
From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:03:32AM -0600, 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 ?
>
> This behavior makes me suspicious.
>

Sounds like the typical broken DNS. Ensure the host from which
you are connecting has proper reverse and forward DNS entries
(or /etc/hosts entries on the server-side). 

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Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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