strange ssh performance issues

[Ian Chapman]

Kevin Kempter wrote:
> This is quite frustrating, however I'm a DBA and have 
> limited networking knowledge. Does anyone have any thoughts?, suggestions?, 
> comments?

I don't know if that's the case here, but I've seen ssh take a long time 
to display the password prompt, when there's DNS issues. When you 
connect to an ssh server it usually does a reverse lookup on the IP 
address of the client trying to connect. If for some reason this reverse 
lookup takes a long time to perform, eg DNS server unavailable, circular 
DNS entries etc then it takes a while for the password prompt to appear.

-- 
Ian Chapman.