odd 10 second delay on php commandline

[Sketchy1]

Hi all,

I have a strange problem.
Suddenly php on the commandline is delaying for 10 seconds before starting up, but only when I try as a normal user. As root, it's immediate.

It's not like the php program is slow itself, because it even waits 10 seconds to display "Could not open input file: kjhsdfkhsdkfj.php"

Here are the results of "time php -i" when running as normal user in jailshell:
(php info omitted)
real 0m10.301s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.011s

Here is as root:
(php info omitted)
real 0m0.290s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.013s

The delay seems to be exactly 10 seconds every time.

Also, I don't know if this is related, but SSH login has a very long delay after I input my (correct) password, up to 30 seconds or so. This seems to have started around the same time as the PHP delay.

Any ideas?

[Ron]

Yeah, I've seen this issue for logging in.

Check your DNS resolution time by trying a simple

wget google.com

on the command line. The results should be nearly instantaneous.

PS don't do that command in your doc_root directory (www) as it will create an index.html file !