Excessive delay at ssh connection to remote host

James Moe moe.james at sohnen-moe.com
Mon Oct 5 06:59:53 AEDT 2026


On 2026-10-03 21:21, Lars Noodén via openssh-unix-dev wrote:

> Leave off the -E or -e options then and the logging will go to the usual 
> place(s).  However, that will pollute your main log with a lot of noise. 
>   Thus the recommendation to log the separate instance of sshd 
> separately using -E.
> 
> /usr/sbin/sshd -p 2222 -E /tmp/sshd.log -d -d -d
 I have already provided a log file using the above (only with -d -d). The issue
for me was that there are no timestamps in the log and I could not parse where
the delay(s) occurred.

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