Yaron wrote: > Ok, this is a weird one. For me anyway. > > One of my servers does this weird thing where the first time you try to > login to it after a reboot it takes for friggin EVER. You type in a name > and password and then it sits there for EVER. > > This is normally not a huge problem since I use ssh with public keys to > login around my own network and THAT is instant. However, if I then try to > sudo, it takes FOREVER. > > Nothing in the logs, nothing on console. It's an Ubuntu server, currently > 10.04, but it did this with previous versions too. Several of my other > machines are also Ubuntu 10.04 server and they do not have this problem. > > I've seen these kind of delays to logging in happen when there's slow > reverse DNS, but not minutes-long delays. Also there's no reverse DNS > delay to any machines from my network. Also that DEFINITELY shouldn't > affect logging in on the console. Have you tried running ethereal on the network to see if it's waiting on a response of some sort? -Steve