Dear All,

I have setup a SFTP Server (using SSH Tectia) in Windows, and running a
script to copy some files to a Solaris 8 box (using OpenSSH).

All the keys and users authentication are setup correctly, so that the
SFTP can login without prompting for a user name / password.

However, the problem is the Auto login is very slow. It took about 13
sec to login.

The two machine is put under a same subnet with very low traffic. I
can't find any option to disable reverse DNS lookup in SSH Tectia. So
what could have gone wrong?

TIA.

ckkwan@my-deja.com wrote:
> The two machine is put under a same subnet with very low traffic. I
> can't find any option to disable reverse DNS lookup in SSH Tectia. So
> what could have gone wrong?

I don't know Tectia, but I think you are on the right track.

Have you tried to to set up reverse-DNS or can you add your hosts to
the $windir/system32/drivers/etc/hosts-file ?

Cheers,
Armin

hasenhei wrote:

> I don't know Tectia, but I think you are on the right track.
>
> Have you tried to to set up reverse-DNS or can you add your hosts to
> the $windir/system32/drivers/etc/hosts-file ?
>
> Cheers,
> Armin

Armin,

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried putting an entry into the hosts
file (using ipaddresses), and time time reduces to 8 sec. But this is
still consider long.....

Do you have any idea what else I can configure?


TIA

ckkwan@my-deja.com wrote:

> Do you have any idea what else I can configure?

Not realy... As said, I don't know Tectia. But this is the time where I
usualy would fire up my packet sniffer and see what's going on ...

I'd first check for any network traffic related to this connection
request (maybe the server is still doing some DNS-lookups...).

If you don't see find any network traffic, I'd use a process-debugger
(such as strace. Which platform are you using ?) and see what's
happening right before the break...

I know, this is debugging work. But I have no other idea, sorry.