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Simon Tatham 0613ec9986 Add a docs note about DNS performed by GSSAPI.
I recently noticed a mysterious delay at connection startup while
using an SSH jump host, and investigated it in case it was a bug in
the new jump host code that ought to be fixed before 0.77 goes out.

strace showed that at the time of the delay PuTTY was doing a DNS
lookup for the destination host, which was hanging due to the
authoritative DNS server in question not being reachable. But that was
odd, because I'd configured it to leave DNS lookup to the proxy,
anticipating exactly that problem.

But on closer investigation, the _proxy_ code was doing exactly what
I'd told it. The DNS lookup was coming from somewhere else: namely, an
(unsuccessful) attempt to set up a GSSAPI context. The GSSAPI library
had called gethostbyname, completely separately from PuTTY's own use
of DNS.

Simple workaround for me: turn off GSSAPI, which doesn't work for that
particular SSH connection anyway, and there's no point spending 30
seconds faffing just to find that out.

But also, if that puzzled me, it's worth documenting!
2022-02-22 18:44:48 +00:00
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blurb.but Integrate the 'doc' subdir into the CMake system. 2021-05-03 17:01:55 +01:00
chm.css Minor style tweaks for the CHM. 2006-12-19 10:28:44 +00:00
chmextra.but Integrate the 'doc' subdir into the CMake system. 2021-05-03 17:01:55 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt doc/CMakeLists.txt: reorganise custom targets. 2022-01-22 14:42:03 +00:00
config.but Add a docs note about DNS performed by GSSAPI. 2022-02-22 18:44:48 +00:00
errors.but Update docs for new host key prompts. 2022-01-11 23:57:39 +00:00
faq.but Update source file names in comments and docs. 2022-01-22 15:51:31 +00:00
feedback.but Tweaks to SUPDUP documentation. 2021-02-21 16:44:51 +00:00
gs.but Update docs for new host key prompts. 2022-01-11 23:57:39 +00:00
index.but Update proxy documentation. 2021-12-30 11:52:51 +00:00
intro.but Docs: de-emphasise VMS. 2021-04-17 13:27:26 +01:00
man-pageant.but Tidy up formatting of manpage cross-references. 2021-08-22 12:23:05 +01:00
man-plink.but Add -pwfile option, a more secure version of -pw. 2021-09-28 18:04:15 +01:00
man-pscp.but Add -pwfile option, a more secure version of -pw. 2021-09-28 18:04:15 +01:00
man-psftp.but Add -pwfile option, a more secure version of -pw. 2021-09-28 18:04:15 +01:00
man-psocks.but Tidy up formatting of manpage cross-references. 2021-08-22 12:23:05 +01:00
man-psusan.but Document Cygwin as a use case for psusan. 2021-12-29 16:38:06 +00:00
man-pterm.but Tidy up formatting of manpage cross-references. 2021-08-22 12:23:05 +01:00
man-putty.but Tidy up formatting of manpage cross-references. 2021-08-22 12:23:05 +01:00
man-puttygen.but Document PPK format parameters, and --reencrypt. 2021-04-20 15:35:50 +01:00
man-puttytel.but Tidy up formatting of manpage cross-references. 2021-08-22 12:23:05 +01:00
mancfg.but Now that Halibut is capable of generating man pages better than I 2004-03-24 19:36:04 +00:00
manpages.but Now that Halibut is capable of generating man pages better than I 2004-03-24 19:36:04 +00:00
pageant.but Pageant docs: improve the new OpenSSH section. 2022-01-26 19:59:19 +00:00
pgpkeys.but GPG key rollover. 2021-08-14 08:02:27 +01:00
plink.but Update usage messages embedded in docs. 2022-01-27 15:04:37 +00:00
pscp.but Update usage messages embedded in docs. 2022-01-27 15:04:37 +00:00
psftp.but File transfer tools: sanitise remote filenames and stderr. 2019-02-20 07:27:22 +00:00
pubkey.but Windows PuTTYgen docs: remove redundant text. 2022-01-22 16:45:29 +00:00
pubkeyfmt.but PuTTYgen: explicitly use 'Kbyte' in Argon2 naming. 2021-04-19 17:03:05 +01:00
site.but Hmm, that relative link wasn't too good. Try a more helpful one. 2003-10-30 10:41:59 +00:00
sshnames.but Document agent protocol extensions. 2021-04-05 18:44:03 +01:00
udp.but Remove the prohibition on // comments. 2022-01-22 15:53:24 +00:00
using.but Update proxy documentation. 2021-12-30 11:52:51 +00:00
vids.but Rework versioning system to not depend on Subversion. 2014-09-24 10:33:13 +00:00