On Fri, 23 May 2008, Jason Pyeron wrote:
I do not have any ideas on this.
Where should I start. [... lots and lots of snippage ...]
When sshd looks to be the culprit, my troubleshooting begins by launching it in foreground mode on a non-standard port on the server:
sshd -ddd -p 2222
On the client, do
ssh -p 2222 your.server
If that doesn't provide good info, wrap sshd in strace:
strace -o /tmp/sshd-trace.txt sshd -d -p 2222
The strace output will show where the delays are occuring. (You can modify timestamp info in the strace output. See the man page for details.)