On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:25:01AM -0500, James Kaufman wrote: > How painfully slow? Have you tried connecting using the -v switch to ssh? It > might help in showing you what point in the authentication process is slow. It > could be as simple as providing the -4 switch to ssh on connect. That reduced > connection time for me to our servers from 15 seconds to about two seconds. even that is a bit much.. [root at box ~]# time ssh root at otherbox hostname otherbox real 0m0.493s user 0m0.220s sys 0m0.050s Reverse DNS, prefer ipv4, disable X11 authentication forwarding if you aren't using it, etc. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list