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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