[SunHELP] SLOW ssh connections..

[Laurence H. Cohen]

Make sure the system you are sshing to can resolve the hostname of the 
system you are sshing from either through NIS, DNS, or /etc/hosts.

Jeff Feller wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>Maybe one of you have had this problem and knew how to fix it.. but
>sometimes when I ssh to my Sun Ultra 2, it takes 5 - 15 seconds (on rare
>ocassions MORE) to bring up the password thing.  It's not a slow network
>connection.. the host I'm ssh'ing from is connected via 100 Mbps.  Web
>pages load up fast and FTP transfers are fast, but the inital ssh login to
>the machine is incredible slow.  What can I check to speed things up?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>Jeff Feller
>BitZ Communications
>1829 South Broadway, Suite 1
>Minot, ND  58701
>
>Tel: (701) 838-9211
>Web: http://www.bitz.net/
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Larry Cohen
Unix Systems Administrator
Sprint Corporate Security
(703)689-6608