Re: SSH + Gnome = slowness

If you feel the problem is DNS, then have you looked up the IP's for
the machines you are connecting to and placed them in /etc/hosts? if
so, is your machine set to look at /etc/hosts first- then dns?


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:33:05 -0700, Kevin <plug-discuss@firstpacket.com> wrote:
> When I am away from the office, I use SSH port forwarding to access
> applications inside my company. However, I'm noticing on my new laptop
> that gnome-2.6 becomes unusable (>2 minute delays to open gedit or
> nautilus) when my SSH tunnels are up. No problems when SSH is
> shutdown. Feels like a name resolution problem similar to localhost
> missing from /etc/hosts.
>
> Here is how I am evoking SSH w/port forwarding:
>
> $ ssh -2 -L8080:localhost:80 -L25:smtp.mycompany.com:25
> -L110:pop.myisp.com:110 -L111:pop.mycompany.com:110 me@ssh.mycompany.com
>
> Explanation of ports:
> 8080: i proxy localhost:8080 to reach internal websites
> 25: forward my outbound mail to company's smtp gateway
> 110: localhost:110 pulls mail from my personal isp mailbox
> 111: localhost:111 pulls mail from my company's mailbox
>
> I configure my web browsers to use proxy localhost:8080. I configure my
> mail client (Evolution) to pull mail from localhost:110 and
> localhost:111.
>
> This all works fine, but while SSH is up gnome apps are painfully slow.
> As soon as I close the SSH session, all the gnome apps I tried to start
> suddenly pop up. Hmmm. Am I forwarding a port that gnome is trying to
> use?
>
> ...Kevin
>
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