Re: SSH login delay

From: Guy Poizat (poizat@partsonline.fr)
Date: 03/28/01 

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:40:13 +0200
To: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, security@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Guy Poizat <poizat@partsonline.fr>

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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