[techtalk] ssh slow login

[Sarah]

Something else that I've found helpful with speeding up connections is to
use ssh -C host.domain.com - -C uses compression

--Sarah


On Thu, 17 May 2001, David Merrill wrote:

> 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!
> 
>