Subject: Re: SSH on NetBSD 1.5.2, authentication slow?
To: None <emre@asper.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/13/2003 22:20:10
In message <31701.66.93.249.254.1047610262.squirrel@mail.vsrc.uab.edu>, emre@as
per.org writes:
>Maybe this doesn't have to do with the authentication, but rather DNS. 
>Could it be that it takes a while to resolve your machine?  if you do ssh
>-v you'll probably see where it hangs.

That was my first thought, till I saw that the timings said 74 seconds 
of user cpu.

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