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Re: rlogin delays



In article <[🔎] 20010829192906.A11406@raggedclown.net>,
Cliff Sarginson  <cliff@raggedclown.net> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:44:06PM +0000, Iain Smith wrote:
>> DNS lookups?
>> 
>Pam is the whinger...

No it probably isn't

>Aug 29 19:15:57 angel rlogind[392]: PAM unable to
>dlopen(/lib/security/pam_cracklib.so)
>Aug 29 19:15:57 angel rlogind[392]: PAM [dlerror:
>/lib/security/pam_cracklib.so: cannot open shared
>object file: No such file or directory]
>Aug 29 19:15:57 angel rlogind[392]: PAM adding faulty module:
>/lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
>Aug 29 19:17:12 angel pam_rhosts_auth[392]: denied to
>cliff@willow.raggedclown.intra as cliff: access not allowed

See the delay between 19:15:57 and 19:17:12 ? That's probably spent
in the pam_rhosts_auth module looking up a hostname.

Most likely still a DNS issue.

Similar questions pops up several times a week in the various Linux
newsgroups and mailinglists and it's *always* a DNS issue.

Mike.
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