ssh delays

Patrick McManus mcmanus at AppliedTheory.com
Fri Sep 21 11:04:59 EDT 2001


sometimes there is a version mismatch going on too (this can apply to
key versions as well as protocol versions).. try it with a -1
flag just for kicks..

-P

[Derek Martin: Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:55:45AM -0400]
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:22:00PM +0000, John Chambers wrote:
> > Starting a few weeks ago, ssh from my home machine  started
> > showing  a  1-  to  2-minute  delay  before  asking  for  a
> [SNIP]
> > It's not a DNS delay, because I can ask nslookup about  the
> > host,  and  it replies instantly.  Ping and traceroute also
> > respond in under a second.
> 
> O.k., but can the remote host look up YOUR address?
> 
> > 
> > When I use ssh from outside to get to the  machine,  it  is
> > also instantaneous. Only outgoing ssh has this delay. There
> > are no messages of any sort added to any log  file  that  I
> 
> The only other thing I can think of is that the remote end is trying
> to query identd on your system and timing out because it's not getting
> a response.  Queries of identd often time out in 30 seconds or so.
> 
> 
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