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. -- [email protected] mailing list
