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Re: [Xen-users] VM slow after being unused for a while
you're right.
:-)
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Itamar Reis Peixoto
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From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Itamar Reis Peixoto" <itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Nasse Gris" <nassegris@xxxxxxxxx>; <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] VM slow after being unused for a while
Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
try to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
and change UseDNS to NO
restart ssh server
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Itamar Reis Peixoto
Unfortunately, that argument doesn't do what you think it does. And it
confuses a lot of people!
Here's the situation at least up through OpenSSH 3.9p1.
OpenSSH, for logging purposes, does a reverse DNS on any contacting IP
address. The UseDNS option says whether to verify that the reverse DNS
matches a valid forward DNS for that host. But disabling UseDNS does
*NOT, NOT, NOT* turn off the reverse DNS lookup! Any number of us have
submitted patches for this over the years: I submitted some when I dealt
with large remotely deployed networks. (When you manage thousands of
machines deployed in data centers all over the world, you can be
absolutely certain a lot of them will not have valid reverse DNS, or
even have DNS working properly, and you need to be able to log in
quickly in a crunch.)
The option you need is in your sshd init script. You need to use the
additional options "-u 0", to set the namelength of the recorded DNS
entry to 0 so that the reverse DNS isn't actually done. (Why the SSH
authors think setting an arglength to 0 should cause undocumented
behavior and not throw an error, instead of obeying the UseDNS option in
the configuraton file more correctly, I leave to people who think the
"chroot" option of OpenSSH actually means a chroot cage for SSH users to
protect them from accessing the filesystem outside their home directory.
It doesn.t.)
I like OpenSSH, I use it a lot, but I've disagreed volubly with the
authors on a few points over the years. This is one of them.
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