From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P5n6n-0005Af-Da for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:14:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33BE4E0710; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D714E0710 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D3A1B4036 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:12:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.301, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id naaWEYzbckkC for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B63D1B407D for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:12:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P5n5M-0002dq-3u for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:12:40 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-214-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.214.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:12:40 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-214-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:12:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow Login, Sudo, etc. Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:12:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-214-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101010 Thunderbird/3.3a1pre In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 0f547715-0d75-4c65-9e3a-85ab22ab4b89 X-Archives-Hash: a4eb590c8034564c8b3b4afce53d1fa4 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?