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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] dropbear, gethostbyname(), timeout
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:31:01
Message-Id: 20080221013057.32124.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] dropbear, gethostbyname(), timeout by Jason
1 On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:15:17AM -0500, Jason wrote:
2 > When I ssh into my board (running dropbear-0.49), if I don't have
3 > the client's ip address and hostname in /etc/hosts (on the board),
4 > it'll take over a minute to log in.
5 ..
6 > What's the proper fix?
7
8 Add the client IP address to the DNS server.
9
10 I would argue that this is a network configuration issue and that
11 ignoring the DNS information supplied by DHCP is a design decision
12 that shouldn't be taken too lightly.
13
14
15 //Peter
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] dropbear, gethostbyname(), timeout Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>