Excessive delay at ssh connection to remote host

[SCOTT FIELDS]

But then again, if your just running an adhoc sshd on a different port, you should see dynamically on your session you ran the debug where it's being delayed.
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From: SCOTT FIELDS <Scott.Fields at kyndryl.com>
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Excessive delay at ssh connection to remote host

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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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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