>>> On 3/20/2009 at 1:45 PM, Mauro Souza <thoriu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, > > In this particular case (I think) is not with DNS... When I had this issue, > even accessing thru ip address I had an unreasonable delay logging in by > ssh.
I wasn't speaking about DNS on the desktop, but on the server running sshd. SSH tries to do a reverse lookup on every IP address connecting to it. Until that returns a name or times out, nothing happens. > An ssh -v show me sshd trying lots of auth schemas, and giving up after > an "auth timeout, trying next"... So I disabled the failing schemas in > sshd_config and now I am able to logon faster than I can spell ssh. Hmm. A "timeout" of some kind. What was the auth type it was waiting on? Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
