[Info-vax] SSH/SCP sessions hanging for 7 minutes while reading from "/dev/random"

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-29, sphowes <sphowesy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am hoping someone may be able to help resolve an issue while opening an SSH or SCP session on an OpenVMS 7.3-2 cluster.
>
> When a session is initiated to or from the server, the connection will hang for ~7 minutes before finally opening the connection and asking for a password.
>

It is not clear to me what is on the other end of the connection in
both these cases. Is it also a VMS system or is it something else ?

Can you confirm that the output you are seeing about /dev/random is
coming from a SSH client that is running on a VMS system ?

Simon.

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