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On Thursday 21 February 2008, Jason wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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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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> >> .. |
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> >> |
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> >>> What's the proper fix? |
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> >> |
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> >> Add the client IP address to the DNS server. |
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> >> |
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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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> > |
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> > while true, reality is such that often times the guy doing the |
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> > development has no control over DHCP or DNS and no matter what he says to |
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> > his IT guys, it's gonna be broken. |
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> > |
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> > personally, i turn off dns reverse lookups in my ssh configs. |
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> |
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> I see in sshd_config(5) there is UseDNS and |
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> HostbasedUsesNameFromPacketOnly. Unfortunately, I'm unable to locate |
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> anything similar for dropbear. Do you patch it out, or just use openssh? |
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sorry, i was referring to openssh. i believe you are correct ... dropbear |
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doesnt have such an option. |
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-mike |
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