Hi Everyone,

This is a little off-topic but someone may me able to point me in the
right direction, so here goes.

I have several brand new Linux hosts which are - as far as I can tell -
identically configured. They all sit at the same region in the firewall and
can all be contacted with ssh or scp.

But one of the four takes an inordinate amount of time to respond to the
connection attempt. Try about 26s response versus sub-second
response - thats the sort of difference you tend to notice!

Once the connection is established all is OK and response is perfectly
fine.

Using ssh -v -v -v it appears that there are two choke points in the
connection.

The first is a ten second or more pause at:
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply

The second is a similar pause at:
debug1: Entering interactive session.

Anyone got any ideas what I should be looking at from here?

Martin Bowes
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