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On 10/11/2010 11:38 PM, daid kahl wrote: |
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> However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding |
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> slowly. This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration |
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> files, but this week it's acting up again. Before it was just su and |
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> sudo that I noticed as slow (authentication takes around 20 seconds). |
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> But now even logins are delayed (xdm or command line). |
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Whenever I see something that eventually works, but only after a long |
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delay, I think of DNS problems. |
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Who might be doing a nonsensical DNS lookup, I have no idea. But you |
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might consider running a packet sniffer (wireshark, etc) while logging |
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in or doing an su. Are you running your own local name server? |