On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:22:41PM -0400, Bob Hartung wrote: > Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:22:41 -0400 > From: Bob Hartung <rwhart@xxxxxxxxx> > To: fedora-list <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: ssh login delays > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi all, > I have two linux boxes at home: FC3 and FC4. I am logging into the > FC4 box from FC3 and the time from issuing the 'ssh ....' command until > I see the password prompt is 36 seconds. As I am new to this I have no > idea where to begin looking for the cause of the delay. > > I can login into the FC4 box from my wife's OS X Mac with virtually > no delay. > > Pointers please on where to begin looking for the hangup. Compare and contrast: ssh -x user@host ssh -X user@host My guess is that the systems are establishing an secure tunnel/ channel for X11 traffic. The other very common time consumer is host name lookup both forward and backward (DNS bind). If I recall correctly the ssh config files (/etc/ssh/*) changed between FC3 and FC4 on some of this. You can check the the X11 thing by starting xterm and then inspect $DISPLAY. If $DISPLAY is a "localhost:11.0" something address there is an SSH tunnel... -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new place to hang my hat :-) Found me a cable too.
