Re: Logins with pam_ldap take 10sec

> Hi there,
>
> I finaly got the authentication with pam_ldap against our ActiveDirectory server to work.
> But now I'm facing the problem, that the logins take quite long.
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> After the prompt for the username, it takes about 10sec, till the password prompt is displayed.
> Has anyone an idea what the reason for this could be? The machines are connected over a LAN, so there should be no speed problems.
>
> I figured out, that the 10sec are about the same, a DNS request takes, if the record could not be found.
> Thats why I tried to replace the hostnames inside the /etc/ldap.conf with the corresponding IP numbers. But it didn't help.
>
> Anyone an idea, what went wrong?
>
> Regards, Jochen.
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