Re: slow su?

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 10,  9:59pm, idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost ("Ian D. Leroux") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: slow su?

| 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?

I would think that if you use LDAP, then it has to.

christos