[H-GEN] ssh login

[Sandra Milne]

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I've had an 'issue' with my debian b0x since I did a complete reinstall 
about a month ago. When I connect using ssh, the prompt for a login name 
appears immediately, but it can be anywhere from 15 up to 30 seconds 
before the prompt for a password appears.

It can't be because of a slow link as this is on the internal network! 
I've tried it from multiple machines and it does the same thing on all 
of them. It doesn't seem to matter if we're currently using the internet 
connection or not. (I had thought since the network card is very old 
that collisions might be causing problems - we get a lot of collisions 
when copying over the network from that computer.)

Has anyone else ever seen this behaviour, and/or know of a place to 
begin troubleshooting it? I have never had this happen before on a 
computer this fast (I had an old 386 that would ask for a password about 
3 seconds before the login timeout.) This computer is an AMD-K6-2-300 
with 128meg of ram and a 13gig hard drive. It had no previous issues 
prior to the reinstall and we're pretty sure the hardware is OK.

Sandra.
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