Re: slow su?

["Ian D. Leroux" <idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:43 +0000, "Christos Zoulas" 
<christos%astron.com@localhost>
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:25:54AM +0200, Ian D. Leroux wrote:
> > Since updating my amd64 system to the latest -current two weeks ago
> > su(1) has been taking ~30s to display the "password" prompt.
> > Otherwise it works normally. [...]
> [...] Or check DNS...

As it turns out, the problem was elsewhere, but I'd be curious to learn
under what circumstances su(1) consults the DNS system (and how to make
sure it doesn't).  Which manual should I FR?

Thanks for your help,

Ian Leroux