Subject: Re: SSH long delay on login
From: Jeff Ridder (jridder@gci.net)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 20:50:20 MDT
If your on the inside of a network firewall, there will be a delay while the
computer does a reverse lookup of who you are. But in cases of private
networks, it will never find anything. You may have to load some info in
your /etc/host file to solve the problem.
Jeff Ridder
jridder@gci.net
> From: "Peter M. Bagnall" <pete@surfaceeffect.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:54:45 -0700
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: SSH long delay on login
>
>> "William K. Gibson" wrote:
>>
>>> on 9/6/00 11:19 AM, Peter M. Bagnall at pete@surfaceeffect.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> when I telnet to it and log on as myself I get in instantly. If I'm
>>>> telnetted in from MacOS and I su to root I get the root prompt instantly.
>>>> However, if I'm telnetted in from YDL and I su I have to wait several
>>>> minutes before the root prompt appears.
>>>
>>> Hmmm, isn't there something in the ssh docs that discuss the amount of time
>>> it takes to generate a new key? Perhaps you are generating a new key every
>>> single time or it is confused and generating keys multiple times?
>>>
>>> Just a guess...
>>>
>>> --William K. Gibson
>>> 1stDesk Systems
>>> firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
>>
>> if you run a tail session on the machine are logging into ( tail -f -n 20
>> /var/log/messages ) you should see ( generating new rsa key ) this would be
>> one reason for the delay, keep this in mind....
>
> Ah, I should have mentioned, I'm not using SSH at all. Which was partly why
> I thought I'd mention it. I'm guessing it's not an SSH problem(!), but
> something network related. It feels like a timeout to me, but I can't
> imagine what might be timing out. Anyhow, it seems that the OS that
> connects has an effect MacOS not causing the problem. At first I assumed it
> was a delay in password lookups, but then Randy said he'd noticed a
> correlation with adding the second NIC, which is a common factor with my
> setup.
>
> It is of course possible that we're suffering from two entirely different
> problems, but I thought that was unlikely.
>
> Does give anyone any ideas?
>
> I'll check /var/log/messages anyhow, am I right in thinking that Telnet w/o
> SSH should also log to there? Might be more clues!
>
> Cheers
>
> Pete
>
> --
> Peter M. Bagnall
> pete@surfaceeffect.com - http://www.surfaceeffect.com/
>
>
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