ssh delays

[ddm at pizzashack.org (Derek Martin)]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:22:00PM +0000, John Chambers wrote:
> Starting a few weeks ago, ssh from my home machine  started
> showing  a  1-  to  2-minute  delay  before  asking  for  a
[SNIP]
> It's not a DNS delay, because I can ask nslookup about  the
> host,  and  it replies instantly.  Ping and traceroute also
> respond in under a second.

O.k., but can the remote host look up YOUR address?

> 
> When I use ssh from outside to get to the  machine,  it  is
> also instantaneous. Only outgoing ssh has this delay. There
> are no messages of any sort added to any log  file  that  I

The only other thing I can think of is that the remote end is trying
to query identd on your system and timing out because it's not getting
a response.  Queries of identd often time out in 30 seconds or so.


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