On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:20:10 -0500
> From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
> To: emre@asper.org
> Cc: Netbsd-Users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: SSH on NetBSD 1.5.2, authentication slow?
>
> 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.
>
105 seconds on 50MHz 486 , 1.5.2.
Protocol version 1 was "fast" , 2 is slow.

> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
> 		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
>
>
>

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