[ale] Why is SSH login slow?

[John Mills]

Thanks - these sound like the right track. I don't believe our firewall at
work gives a useful response to reverse IP-lookup, and I know my system at
home does not. (DirecTV won't do this for their addresses.)

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Transam wrote:

> > It probably cannot reverse lookup your IP address.  Either tell the SSH
> > server to not reverse lookup you IP (Bad idea), or add your IP to the hosts
> > file or the DNS server.
 
> Or the SSH server could be attempting to do an Ident on you.  If the proxy
> Firewall is doing IP Masquerading (NAT) then does it also have an Ident
> server (hopefully configured for security)?

 - John Mills


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