Slow response to SSH from within network?

[William Park]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:20:16PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I have been setting up a second machine on my network, headless, and so
> I log into it via ssh pretty often.  I notice that there seems to be a
> ten second delay before offering a prompt.  I notice this if I log back
> into the first (with a head) machine from the new machine, too.  So I
> have to assume that this is a behaviour rather than a weird glitch, and
> it makes some sense.  
> 
> However, I still want to turn it off :-)  Anyone know how to get ssh to
> answer the first ring?  Thanks.

Try the same thing when you're connected to Internet, and your DNS
queries ('nameservers' in /etc/resolv.conf, 'forwarders' in
/etc/named.conf) resolves.

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