Excessive delay at ssh connection to remote host

[SCOTT FIELDS]

If you can temporarily change your loglevel in your sshd config file, restart it, reproduce the issue and then set it back, your journal or /var/log/messages should then have timestamps for each message.
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To: Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Excessive delay at ssh connection to remote host

On 2026-09-29 23:01, Damien Miller wrote:

> If these options help then the problem may be aggressive NAT timeouts.
>
This is on a local network. There is no NOT activity between the two hosts.

>> What may cause the further delay for the password prompt?
> It's almost impossible to tell without server logs here. Are you able
> to get debug logs from the server?

I have attached a log file. I am unable to decipher its information, especially
since there are no timestamps.

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