ssh-keyscan for ssh2 (was Re: openssh-2.9p1)

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

Don't know.. Is it worth it worth it to you, Markus?

ssh-keyscan -1RD to my local OpenBSD sparc it takes around 9 seconds
to request all three.  Where the v2 protocols eat up the most time (about
4 seconds for each v2 key).

Keep in mind that sparc is only a 150mhz SS20.  So it's not the fastest,
box in the world.  I've tried a few other servers I log into and they are
around 3 - 5 seconds to fetch all 3 keys.  So I don't know if parallelize
them (except for large multi-subnet
searches) if it's worth it.

- Ben

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Wayne Davison wrote:

> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Wayne Davison wrote:
> > we grab the keys in order of bits 1, 2, then 4.
>
> I should really revisit this decision to see what you all think.  The
> current code does not try to contact the same host in parallel, and
> maybe it should.  So, you you run "ssh-keyscan -1 -D foo.bar", it first
> asks for the RSA1 key, then the DSA key if it was successful.  I could
> change it so that it fired off both (all) requests in parallel to the
> same host.  Thoughts?
>
> ..wayne..
>
>