Re: Working out a OS X 10.4 Tiger ssh implementation issue, slow logins
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:20:28 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote:
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> There are scattered reports, and various solutions to an issue where ssh
> logins take in excess of 30 seconds to instantiate a connection to a remote
> host. There are various workarounds, but there is no consensus.
>
>
> debug3: Trying to reverse map address ip.add.re.ss.
>
> If I change to my own recursive resolver, the problem does go away.
> However, this was not needed in 10.2 or 10.3 OS X. So in some ways, it does
> seem to be DNS related, but I am not sure just exactly where.
>
I just compared the man pages for sshd_config from a 10.3 system and a
10.4 system. In the 10.4 system, the VerifyReverseMapping option is
missing. I would suggest adding this option with an argument of No.
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