On Thursday 21 February 2008, Jason wrote: > 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?
sorry, i was referring to openssh. i believe you are correct ... dropbear doesnt have such an option. -mike
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