On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Brent <brent...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Since no one has responded, I'll just make a general comment about
> this based on my past experience.
> Delays on login can be related to reverse DNS lookup.  If the
> configuration wants to reverse lookup your IP and the DNS is not
> working, it will take several minutes to timeout and then it will
> login.  One test that could tell you if it might be DNS related would
> be to ssh into the box through the same network interface and user id.
>  If the ssh login also behaves the same way, chances are good the
> delay is a reverse DNS lookup timeout.
> A few solutions are:
> - disable reverse lookup in the login configuration (I don't know if
> this applicable to tightvnc on Opensuse)
> - make sure the host box's DNS lookup isn't pointed to an invalid
> source or blocked by a firewall
> - get DNS operational on the box in general so that it will rapidly
> find a DNS server and either quickly resolve or quickly fail to lookup
>

I meant to respond to this yesterday.  I agree that it is probably name
resolution related, however I would suggest trying a newer version of the
client as well.  The java viewer has undergone significant development
since last March and it's very easy to build standalone if your distro
doesn't have a newer update.

-brian
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