[techtalk] ssh slow login

[Jamie Walker]

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.

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