Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :I upgraded my system recently to DFly 1.1-CURRENT (Aug 24th). It was
> :previously 1.1-CURRENT from about July 22nd. Since I have upgraded, I
> :have been experiencing slow logins with ssh...When I try to connect, it
> :takes a good 60 seconds to make the connection. However, once the
> :connection is made, everything goes nice and quick. Is there something
> :I can take a look at to resolve this?
> :
> :Walter Venable
>
> Hmm. 60 seconds probably rules out a network protocol issue. It
> sounds like a reverse DNS issue. If the target system's sshd is unable
> to resolve the IP address of the originator it could take up to 60
> seconds for it to give up.
>
> This is easy to test. On the target system try to do a reverse dns
> lookup of the other end's IP with 'nslookup'.
>
> e.g. nslookup 216.240.41.2 would return :
>
> 2.41.240.216.in-addr.arpa name = apollo.backplane.com.
>
> If it is a reverse dns problem then it's probably your resolver or
> something along those lines that has a configuration issue.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon@backplane.com>
Looks like this is the issue. Thanks for the input. I'd been messing
with my DNS server the other day and one little typo...
Anyway, thanks!