Re: Two simple openssh questions...

From: Thomas Binder (gryf+usenet_at_hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de)
Date: 08/26/03 

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:55:41 +0000 (UTC)

Hi!

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote:
> Lack of reverse DNS is not "broken".

And where did I state that? I said that if there are delays when
sshd is trying to reverse lookup the IP, then usually the local
DNS config is broken. Whether an IP resolves to a hostname or not
should not have any (noticable) effect on the time the query takes
when DNS is set up properly.

Ciao

Thomas 

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