John,
you need to tell your linux box to immediately give up if it cannot do a dns
lookup, you can do this by adding the following to /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=return] dns
this will cause the box to NOT attempt a dns lookup if there is no entry in
/etc/hosts. this will likely solve your problem )
df
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:40 PM
Subject: Could not reverse map address
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this list, but have read thru the archives.
>
> I've seen this question asked a number of different times, but haven't
> found a really good/solid answer about it.
>
> The symptoms:
> - I use SecureCRT (from Van Dyke) to log into the Linux box. It takes
> a very long time before it prompts for a password (but it does). It's
> hit or miss, sometimes it is instantanous, other times it takes 15 to 45
> seconds.
>
> - I get this message in the log file: log: Could not reverse map
> address 192.168.0.x
>
> My system is a Red Hat Linux 6.2 install, it's on an "internal" network
> (192.168.0.*), we connect to the internet thru a proxy server.
> nslookups work, etc.
>
> My SSH version is:
>
> SSH Version 1.2.30 [i686-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5.
> Standard version. Does not use RSAREF.
>
> Any thoughts? What am I missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --John
>
