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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-30, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> 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 ?
>

For the VMS systems, you also need to state which TCP/IP stack and
version you are using and if you are using the SSH client supplied
with that stack.

If you are, then make sure you have run the required startup command
procedure(s) for that stack at startup.

Simon.

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