On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:17:19PM +0000, Bill Earl wrote:
> We had a strange thing happen this morning, and I'm hoping someone in 
> the group can point me toward a likely culprit. Both our database 
> machines, which are running SuSE 9.1, began exhibiting a strange 
> behavior where it's slow to initially connect to them (about 10 
> seconds), but after that initial slowness while connecting, everything 
> is as speedy as normal.

I'd guess that sshd is doing a reverse dns lookup on your ip address.

The options that control this are different for various versions of
ssh servers, e.g. UseDNS or ReverseMappingCheck.

-Dale
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