Re: Delays between "connection received" and "connection authenticated" because of localhost entries in hba

>>Maybe check that "files" is the first mechanism for hosts lookups in nsswitch.conf.

>afaik dig doesn't follow the same name resolution path as glibc.

I don't know. Is there a way to test the glibc way easily?

> a connection received should mean resolution was done, right ? am i missing something?

>Well, I'm just throwing out something to check, but I meant on the server, not the client. It's trying to resolve >"localhost" to check the auth. If there's a delay, that's probably where it is.

>I guess I just assumed that's where you were testing dig.

Yes

Regards
Daniel