Hi falks,

I've followed the procedures posted here in another thread, making successful the ssh/scp authentication between two servers.

The fact is that I have a web application which use a shell script to copy (scp) some files to both servers in order to duplicate the uploaded files from the web appl.
This was working very good but in the last few weeks the time it took to establish an ssh conection between both servers was too low!!! (8 seconds average)

Both hosts are virtual servers in a same phisical server, so the time between conections should be nothing more than some mili seconds.

Has someone any clue about where should I investigate the origin of this delay?

Thanks,

Ignacio Nieto

could be DNS lookups. Try either adding both machine's ip addresses to the other machine's /etc/hosts or turning off UseDNS in your sshd_config ...

could be other things too though. If that doesn't help, try tacking on a -vvv to your ssh command and seeing what step of the connection it is hanging at.

Hi! thanks a lot!
Here's is the delay:

root@cds-desa # ssh -vvv 10.252.68.78
Sun_SSH_1.1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090704f
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
...
debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
//Here it takes an average of 8 secs.
debug2: input_userauth_info_req
debug2: input_userauth_info_req: num_prompts 1
Password:
//After entering the passwd it's all ok.

Why does it takes such long time answering the keyboard-interactive packet?

I've tried also between two servers which are authenticated with a public key and doesn't ask the passwd to each other and threw me:

debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted.
debug1: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
//Here it holds 8 secs
debug1: Connecting to cds-fe2 [10.252.68.114] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /.ssh/id_dsa.
debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----BEGIN'
debug3: key_read: no key found
debug3: key_read: no space
...