Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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.

I see in sshd_config(5) there is UseDNS and
HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly.  Unfortunately, I'm unable to locate
anything similar for dropbear.  Do you patch it out, or just use openssh?

thx,

Jason.
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