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

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On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:18:26 PM UTC-4, sphowes wrote:
> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:13:27 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote: 
> > On 2021-09-30 17:04:19 +0000, sphowes said: 
> > 
> > > BIND is disabled on the cluster so it is not doing any DNS lookups. 
> > Whether or not you are running the BIND server locally, you can be 
> > running the resolver, and that resolver can be slow. 
> > 
> > Check your DNS translations for all of the hosts involved, forward and reverse. 
> > 
> > Whether those translations are arising from the resolver, or from the 
> > local hosts database. 
> > 
> > And upgrade that twenty year old OpenVMS configuration soonest. 
> > -- 
> > Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC
> Yes, I meant that the BIND resolver is not setup. This even happens when opening an SSH session to localhost, which is defined in the local host database. 
> 
> I hear you on the upgrade, but it is not as simple as "just upgrade" the environment. Wish it was my call, wish it was that easy. LOL

I have seen similar behavior with an invalid/obsolete  gateway address too. 

Dan