On 11/16/2016 3:07 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > I have a CentOS 7 system and when I login with putty or ssh there is a > long delay before I get the password prompt. I ran ssh -v and I found > that it gets up to this: > > debug1: ssh_ecdsa_verify: signature correct > debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent > debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS > debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received > debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent > debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received > > and then it sits there for 1-2 minutes and then this output blasts out: wild guess says someone is doing a reverse DNS lookup thats timing out. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz