On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:15:17AM -0500, Jason wrote: > > When I ssh into my board (running dropbear-0.49), if I don't have > > the client's ip address and hostname in /etc/hosts (on the board), > > it'll take over a minute to log in. > .. > > What's the proper fix? > > Add the client IP address to the DNS server. > > I would argue that this is a network configuration issue and that > ignoring the DNS information supplied by DHCP is a design decision > that shouldn't be taken too lightly.
while true, reality is such that often times the guy doing the development has no control over DHCP or DNS and no matter what he says to his IT guys, it's gonna be broken. personally, i turn off dns reverse lookups in my ssh configs. -mike
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