Re: sshd

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:28:54AM +0200, scratch wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
>
> > Yes, I do plan on logging into the laptop remotely.  And I don't want to
> > remove the daemon from the startup...I just don't want it to pause for 5
> > minutes when there is no network. :)  Why exactly does sshd freeze on
> > startup, is it trying to do a DNS lookup or something?
>
> If I'm right, it's probably generating an RSA key. This is not only done
> on startup though. OTOH, one would think this would be a background
> process, and you shouldn't wait for it at bootup.
>
> I never noticed such a freeze personally.

Generating the RSA is a background process. I just thought about
something though, what address do you have it binding to in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config? It should be 0.0.0.0.

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