udrepper: MALLOC_PERTURB_
sometimes I think that somebody should staple TODO lists to my eyelids.
I've seen this article a few times, and you know how many times I've used MALLOC_PERTURB_ ? Once, after a saw it to test how it worked. I'm ashamed :(
I was connecting to a sshd on a Debian Etch which ran on the same machine under VMWare.
The guest OS has a 192.168.x.y type IP (dhcp from VMWare) on a separate virtual interface.
I applied William's solution (https:/
In /etc/nsswitch.conf, I replaced :
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
with
hosts: files dns
From 5-10 seconds I now get less than one second wait time before the password prompt is shown.
No other edits to ssh_config were needed.