On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:17:26AM -0500, Bliss, Aaron wrote: > I should have been more clear; finding the box over the network is > normal; it's the actual process of authentication that is very slow; for > example, if logging in via ssh with a key, I actually see the message > login as: and the userid I type for a few seconds and then > Authenticating with public key "rsa-key-20050815" for a few seconds. That still looks like a DNS issue. From the server, see if you can do both forward and reverse lookups on the address that a slow user is coming from. .../Ed > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:14 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: Very slow performance suddenly on redhat 3 es server > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:05:32AM -0500, Bliss, Aaron wrote: > > I'm not exactly sure what has changed on this box, however for some > > reason logins to this box are very slow; it's not network related, as > > the boxes are using local authentication; > > Just because it's using local authentication doesn't mean that it's not > a network issue. You could be experiencing DNS issues, perhaps timing > out talking to your nameservers. > > .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list