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Date:  Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:29:05 -0600
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:11324] Re: very slow authentication
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <004101c83354$fef074e0$0101a8c0@systemax>
In-Reply-To:  <474F3B39.9010906 (at mark) dogsbody.org>
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Dogsbody wrote  Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:21 PM

Jim dory wrote;
> > My new MSI bluequartz server is pretty slow when using ssh 
> or winscp. 
> > I
> > fire up putty and user login pops up pretty quick, but when 
> I enter the 
> > password it takes up to something like 24 seconds or more. This is 
> > enough to cause winscp to time-out before it connects.
> > 
> > I'm looking through the archive but not sure what the 
> answer is - I've
> > seen reference to a db management vs. flat file - but not 
> sure yet if 
> > this applies. 
> 
> Not to this problem no.
> 
> > What else might I look at? Pretty stock otherwise.
> 
> The first things to check is that the server can do a reverse 
> lookup of the IP 
> you are connecting from.  It could be this is timing out.
> 

Yes, make sure the nameservers you have is System are working properly,
Slow authenticate is due to DNS lookups!

Gerald


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