"Carel Fellinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently I upgraded a box to woody and ever since it takes a lot of time > to start ssh from that box. Only starting from that box, connecting to > it is normal, and (quit telling) only when my internet connection is down. > > With tcpdump it's clear that the only thing going on over the net is a > DNS query. I've the local machine and the machine connecting too both > in /etc/hosts, yet there is this DNS query. > > I tried sniffit to look into the DNS query, but I don't understand how > that should be done; would be interesting to see just what addres is > looked-up. > > I tried strace ..., but can't make sense out of its output, yet. > > So any pointer in howto get to the bits is appreciated, any pointer > of how to prevent such spurious DNS queries is also appreciated.
I'm not sure if it's the same in woody, but on potato I'd take a look at the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. In there make sure that you have a line like: hosts: files dns Sounds like yours is either not using "files" at all or you have "dns" ahead of files. As always you'll want to verify that what I wrote above is true for your particular installation. I'm basing this on what I know about potato. Good Luck! Gary
