RE: [cobalt-users] Long login time?

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Only my Qube3, the first login process takes over a minute to finish.
> Once that's done, subsequent logins will respond in a reasonable time.
> This is not tied to telnet, it happens with SSH as well.  So long as
> I have an SSH session (not through the localhost / loopback interface)
> up (such as from work), I can log in quickly.  If I have to reset my
> DSL modem (and cause the SSH session to terminate), then the next time
> I log in, I make sure to schedule time to get coffee.
> 
> Is this something others have seen before, or unique to my box?
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Hi Tim,
this I think is a rDNS issue, when you're connected through your DSL your ISP may not have correctly assigned reverse DNS entries for your IP. So when you login to your Qube it tries to reverse resolve, and has to wait for a timeout before it continues. Hence the long delay.
After you've done that once it 'caches' it (I quote mark that as its a little unclear as to this caching behaviour fwiw) so subsequent logins work.

BUT when you disconnect and reconnect I presume you get assigned a different IP?? And so starts the whole thing off.

One solution, is if you run DNS on the server, to add in the reverse zone delegation for those IPs. Its not neat, and shouldn't really be done, but it would speed you up here.
OR if you are from the same few ips, then put them into /etc/HOSTS and see if that helps.

Regards,

Andy
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