internet slowdown

[Bill Moran]

In response to prad <prad at towardsfreedom.com>:
> 
> 5. i don't see why there would be a dns problem since we are sshing
> from within our local network which the servers are part of. in fact,
> it is slow even when you use the ip address directly.

Because the ssh server always does DNS lookups on connecting IPs in
order to have hostnames to put in the logs.  If DNS is sluggish,
unresponsive, or configured poorly, it will cause long delays during
login.

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Bill Moran
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