[techtalk] ssh slow login

[David Merrill]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:40:55PM +1200, Jamie Walker wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:26:36PM -0400, David Merrill wrote:
> 
> > When I ssh into this box, it sometimes takes 20-30 seconds for the
> > login prompt to come up. Does anyone know why it would take this long
> > to display a login prompt over a LAN? The machine has almost no load
> > on it.
> 
> It's trying and failing to do a DNS lookup on the host you're connecting 
> from.
> 
> A quick way around it is to add the IP address of that machine to 
> /etc/hosts on the machine you're connecting to.

Yep, that was it. Thanks!

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