Re: ssh login delay

["Gudjon I. Gudjonsson" <gudjon@mc2.chalmers.se>]

On Monday 03 October 2005 15:54, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:51:56AM +0200, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
> >    This is most probably not an amd64 related problem but could someone
> > tell me where the delay time for the failed login in ssh is set in
> > Debian. All the computers I have access to have delay but not my amd64
> > one. I have looked through the internet for 2 hours without success.
>
> Usually delay on connect/login is caused by not having working DNS/hosts
> file to resolve the incoming IP.  If DNS is working fine, it tends to be
> able to quickly determine if it can or can not resolve the name of the
> IP connecting.  If DNS is not working, you will get a long delay while
> it waits for name lookup timeout.
>
> Len Sorensen
I don't think there is any DNS problem. ssh works perfectly on all the 
machines I have access to (or administrate) but one does not have any delay 
on password after a failed password. I would like to be able to control this 
parameter. 

Regards
Gudjon