[H-GEN] ssh login

[Sandra Milne]

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Greg Black wrote:

> Well, I've seen delays from around 20 seconds to a couple of
> minutes for DNS-related problems with ssh, although I'd agree
> that something around 90 seconds is probably more common.
> Perhaps Sandra will work it out and let us know.

Sorry, thought my email saying that I added the computer I'm ssh'ing 
from to the hosts file and it now works flawlessly, no longer that awful 
delay that gives me a sinking feeling like I'm going to timeout before I 
get to enter my password.

I don't have DNS setup on the debian machine no, and yes I'm trying to 
connect from a windows b0x on the internal network using puTTY. Better 
that it resolves my host with just a hostname from its hosts file than 
to try various methods of resolving it and fail.

As soon as I find a bookstore that actually stocks[1] the O'Reilly book 
"DNS and Bind" I'm going to buy it and start learning about dns. I've 
tried 4 different bookstores now and no joy. One had the cookbook but 
that doesn't do me much good when I don't know what the example 
configurations actually do.

Sandra.
[1]Southside preferred
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