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On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:15:17AM -0500, Jason wrote: |
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> > When I ssh into my board (running dropbear-0.49), if I don't have |
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> > the client's ip address and hostname in /etc/hosts (on the board), |
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> > it'll take over a minute to log in. |
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> .. |
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> > What's the proper fix? |
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> Add the client IP address to the DNS server. |
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> I would argue that this is a network configuration issue and that |
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> ignoring the DNS information supplied by DHCP is a design decision |
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> that shouldn't be taken too lightly. |
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while true, reality is such that often times the guy doing the development has |
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no control over DHCP or DNS and no matter what he says to his IT guys, it's |
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gonna be broken. |
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personally, i turn off dns reverse lookups in my ssh configs. |
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-mike |
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