ssh delays

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

Greg wrote:
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| Note that dns should be caching the entries, so subsequent lookups
| should be fast even if the dns is having problems.  is ssh still slow,
| repeatably?

Yup; that's also one of the things I've tested a lot. I can
use  nslookup,  ping,  etc  to  verify  that  the other end
responds quickly, then when I  try  ssh,  it  hangs  for  a
minute or two.  You'd think that the earlier requests would
fill up any caches, but the delay still happens.

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