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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-09-30 16:37:37 +0000, sphowes said:

> It doesn't matter if the connection is coming to/from another OpenVMS 
> server or a Linux server, there is still the 7 minute wait.   We have 
> tried to/from multiple servers with the same delay.  The "/dev/random" 
> delay is definitely occurring on the OpenVMS server.

Bad DNS is another option.

Wouldn't be the first configuration with sketchy DNS causing long delays.

Really needs an upgrade to V8.4-2L1 or V8.4-2L2, too.

Twenty-year-old software... has issues.



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