I am remotely logging in using SSH onto a E250 running Solaris 8.
I am NOT using quota.

When I first log in to the machine, it can take 20 to 30 seconds to
respond with the prompt.  If I log out and log right back in, the
machine responds immediately.  I have another E250 on the same side of
the network that has no problem initially responding.

Any ideas where I can tune this system?

Thanks.

canyonero@excite.com (Bert Prefect) writes:
>I am remotely logging in using SSH onto a E250 running Solaris 8.
>I am NOT using quota.
>
>When I first log in to the machine, it can take 20 to 30 seconds to
>respond with the prompt.  If I log out and log right back in, the
>machine responds immediately.  I have another E250 on the same side of
>the network that has no problem initially responding.
>
>Any ideas where I can tune this system?
>

It's querying DNS to get the hostname of the machine you're connecting
from.  The 20-30 seconds is the timeout.  The speed of re-connecting
is due to the nscd daemon caching the answer (or lack of it) for the
query.

Fix the reverse DNS info for the machine your connecting from, or
fix the E250's idea of which DNS servers it can use.

  -Greg
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Bert Prefect wrote:
> I am remotely logging in using SSH onto a E250 running Solaris 8.
> I am NOT using quota.
> 
> When I first log in to the machine, it can take 20 to 30 seconds to
> respond with the prompt.  If I log out and log right back in, the
> machine responds immediately.  I have another E250 on the same side of
> the network that has no problem initially responding.
> 
> Any ideas where I can tune this system?
> 
> Thanks.


    Make sure that your name-resolution works correctly  :-)

    both forward  AND revers lookup

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In article <efd9e403.0309050757.5043ccb3@posting.google.com>,
 canyonero@excite.com (Bert Prefect) wrote:

> I am remotely logging in using SSH onto a E250 running Solaris 8.
> I am NOT using quota.
> 
> When I first log in to the machine, it can take 20 to 30 seconds to
> respond with the prompt.  If I log out and log right back in, the
> machine responds immediately.  I have another E250 on the same side of
> the network that has no problem initially responding.
> 
> Any ideas where I can tune this system?
> 
> Thanks.

Is the host you're ssh'ing from in the remote system's /etc/host file or 
in DNS?  If not, that might be the problem.

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