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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow Login, Sudo, etc.
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:12:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i92mge$6us$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimX3aBuUeZJxOb_+Tcwj-wajOe2wtC6Jsj07nL0@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/11/2010 11:38 PM, daid kahl wrote:

> However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding
> slowly.  This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration
> files, but this week it's acting up again.  Before it was just su and
> sudo that I noticed as slow (authentication takes around 20 seconds).
> But now even logins are delayed (xdm or command line).

Whenever I see something that eventually works, but only after a long
delay, I think of DNS problems.

Who might be doing a nonsensical DNS lookup, I have no idea.  But you
might consider running a packet sniffer (wireshark, etc) while logging
in or doing an su.  Are you running your own local name server?




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-12  6:38 [gentoo-user] Slow Login, Sudo, etc daid kahl
2010-10-12  7:12 ` [gentoo-user] " daid kahl
2010-10-12  7:13   ` daid kahl
2010-10-12 14:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-10-12 22:12 ` walt [this message]
2010-10-13 13:38   ` [gentoo-user] " daid kahl
2010-10-14  0:28     ` James Ausmus
2010-10-14  0:57       ` Adam Carter
2010-10-15  7:24         ` daid kahl

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