Siju George wrote:
Hi,
My OpenBSD 3.9 on an amd64 is very very slow for SSH login.
As already mentioned, if reverse lookup doesn't work your login will
pause for a substantial amount of time before you are prompted.
Assuming this is a network under your control, if your LAN is small you
could just update the hosts files on your machines. If you have more
than a few machines on the network, or a heterogeneous network where it
isn't as simple as copying around a hosts file, you might want to look
into using DNS internally. There have been a few times where my ISP has
had DNS trouble which downed large numbers of their customers, but my
machines were able to continue right along with no problems because of
my internal DNS server. There's a little more work involved in setting
it up, but once you read the man page for named and the BIND 9
Administrator Reference Manual (free PDF download) it comes together
pretty quickly. I use an invalid TLD of .int to make sure I don't
collide with a domain in the outside world, which has never failed me
for internal use.
You may even want to use DHCP to assign static IPs by using host
declarations which assign a fixed-address to each host based on the MAC
address. But I digress.
Breeno
