[wellylug] What can cause a slow login?

[Pete Black]

DNS!

does your machine have the correct hostname->ip mapping in /etc/hosts, 
and is there a localhost 127.0.0.1 line as well?


On 23/11/2004, at 9:11 AM, Enkidu wrote:

>
> If this had been a Windows box I'd have been deafened by yells of
> "DNS", but what would make a Debian Linux box slow to login?
>
> Accessing using putty, the "login as:" comes up quickly, but the
> password prompt doesn't arrive for 10s of seconds....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
> -- 
>
> These twin-CPU hyperthreading computers are really
> great! We can wait ten to a hundred times faster
> these days.
>
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