FC1 slowing down

[John Rowan]

Jeetendra Mirchandani wrote:

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>
> Hi,
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> I have been using FC1 sine quite some time.
>
> But since few days, the login process has slowed down
>
> whenever i do a ssh to my comp, it displays the ssh banner and hangs 
> for 2 odd minutes.
>
> whenever i do a sudo <some command>, it hangs for 2 mins
>
> A login on the terminal also takes same time
>
> All i remember is that this happened after i upgraded to 
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl
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> But now even after booting into old kernel-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl, its the 
> same...
>
> can someone think of any reasons for this?
>
>
Have you checked your DNS settings?  Sounds like a reverse lookup failure.