What's the possible reasons for building SSH connection veryslowly?

[Yudong Tian]

Guys,
  Thanks for all the replies. "ssh -4" fixes the problem. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-admin at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-admin at beowulf.org]On
> Behalf Of Jim Meyer
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 11:59 AM
> To: Beowulf Mailing List
> Subject: RE: What's the possible reasons for building SSH connection
> veryslowly?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 06:56, Yudong Tian wrote:
> > I am seeing something similar. If I use "ssh ipaddr"
> > or "ssh hostname.domain", the connection establishes
> > quickly. But if I use "ssh hostname", it will take
> > about 1 minute to get through. My DNS server and hosts
> > files are fine. "ssh -v" shows it gets stuck at "ssh_connect". 
> 
> Hmmmm. What's your /etc/resolv.conf file say? And what does "nslookup
> host" return? Finally, how long did that last bit take when compared to
> "nslookup host.domain"? This may not have anything to do with ssh.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> --j
> -- 
> Jim Meyer, Geek At Large                              purp at wildbrain.com
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