> Hi,
>
> I changed all my nsswitch.conf entries to point to files, previously
> it was set to "files nis". However when I ssh in it still takes a long
> time to authenticate. Is there a service I need to restart e.g. pam
> etc? .... I'll reboot as a last resort but I thought it was an
> interesting problem.
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grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
(almost certainly bound to help)
Craig
Just to state the obvious, whenever I've had this problem, it was almost
always because I misspelled the first entry in my list of DNS servers in
resolv.conf ;)
Hugh
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