On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:10:30AM -0500, Mark Carroll wrote: | On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote: | (snip) | > right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt. | (snip) | | Do DNS lookups of uncached hostnames from that box happen slowly too? | | Could it have anything to do with it trying to do an ident check on the | person connecting but those packets being silently dropped?
I bet this is why ssh'ing to my debian boxen has a long delay! What is the solution? Is it a good idea to open up 'ident' in the firewall? -D
