Re: Slow first authentication

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed that the very first time I ssh to my dfly box (after reboot), 
> it takes about 5-7 seconds before I get the prompt.  Every time after that 
> is almost instantaneous.  I don't think this happened under fbsd.  
> Any ideas why?
>
> Jonathon
> --
> The beaten path is for the beaten man.

I thought that most of the time this is a resolve issue, to be precise a 
reverse IP lookup of the machine you want to initiate the connection from.
So what does your /etc/hosts, /etc/resolve, dns server say _on_ the 
server say and does this match with reality?

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mph