[BlueOnyx:02321] Re: Sluggish passwords

[David Booth]

> Alan Kline wrote:
>> I've noticed over the last day or so that whenever I need to log into
>> my
>> shell, send mail, or do ftp, my BX box is taking forever (or at least
>> 15
>> or 20 seconds) to accept the password. I don't think I've done
>> anything
>> through the GUI that could have affected anything, and I know I
>> haven't
>> made any changes through the command line. I use port 333 for ssh (to
>> thwart the hackers) but the problem seems to be the same if I change
>> to
>> any other port, including 22.
>>
>> (I use ssh for the shell, and sftp...)
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Alan
>>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Do you have hostname lookups enabled?  I ask because I'm having a 
> similar
> problem with a brand new server, but it appears to be name resolution 
> that
> is slow - a wget from the command line takes just as long to resolve 
> the
> domain as your description of FTP connect, which I have as well.
>


> Look in /etc/resolv.conf - I've seen this trouble fixed by making sure 
> there is a responsive nameserver listed there:

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx