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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