Re: Lag when sshing into OpenBSD 3.0 server

[<teddan@rupture.net>]

When you ssh to a box it does a reverse lookup on the Ip you are ssh'ing from.
If this Ip doesn't have a reverse lookup it takes a long time. Private
IPs(10.s, 192.168, and 172 sumthin) usually don't have reverse lookups set for
them unless you set them up yourself using your own DNS server. Alternativly
you can put the IP you are SSH'ing from in your hosts file on the server and
it goes more quickly. 
-Ted
Luiz Gustavo <gustavo@shoptime.com> said:

> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:04:45PM +0000, . . wrote:
> 
> > When I ssh to the servers using either "ssh -C -l" "ssh -l" or
> > a windows client (putty, secureCRT) I immediately get prompted for a 
> > password.  Once the password is entered I have to wait any where from
> > 30 seconds to 90seconds before I get a shell prompt.
> > 
> > Does any one know why this may be happening
> 
>  dns problem?
> 
> Gustavo
> 



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