ssh login time

[Ian]

David Aikema wrote:
> 
> I finally got my gateway system fully assembled, with all its software
> running, a few days ago.  Since that time I have noticed one peculiar oddity
> that seems to occur when attempting to login to the system via ssh.
> 
> If I attempt to login via ssh on the lan interface it takes a long time
> (probably around a minute or so) before the prompt for a password appears.
> 
> However, if I (from the same machine) ssh to a server at the university I
> attend, and then ssh back here, into the gateway machine, the password prompt
> shows its face almost immediately.
> 
> I haven't really got a clue as to what the source of this problem might be.
> It seems to defy any explanation that I have yet come across.

Do you have entries for all of the hosts on your network in the
/etc/hosts files on each of the hosts?  Sounds like a name resolution
thing possibly.
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