What's the possible reasons for building SSH connection very slowly?

[Justin Moore]

> I have a cluster.
> Master node is uni-cpu and kernel is 2.4.18
> Slave nodes are dual-cpu and kernel is 2.4.18-smp-7.95
>
> The OPENSSH version is 2.9p2
>
> The time for building a SSH coneection from master to
> one slave is very slow, around 1 minutes.

   What does an 'ssh -v user at master' give you?  What's the last message
you see before it hangs?

-jdm

Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0129
Email:  justin at cs.duke.edu