From owner-ssh@clinet.fi Fri Jun 1 03:08:43 2001 Received: from smtp1.clinet.fi (smtp1.clinet.fi [194.100.2.57]) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA24873 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 03:08:43 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from mail.clinet.fi (mail.clinet.fi [194.100.0.7]) by smtp1.clinet.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF7F21840; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 03:08:42 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by mail.clinet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA10155 for ssh-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 02:49:16 +0300 Received: from cybercebu.com ([203.148.68.2]) by mail.clinet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA10147; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 02:49:07 +0300 Received: from pop.cybercebu.com (marlene.cybercebu.com [203.148.68.2]) by cybercebu.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f4VNnSS20871; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 07:49:28 +0800 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 07:49:28 +0800 (PHT) From: "Julius C. Duque" To: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Cc: ssh@clinet.fi Subject: Re: ssh connection slow establishing In-Reply-To: <20010531182058.YRMV8055.mtiwmhc27.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 May 2001 owner-ssh@clinet.fi wrote: > To anyone who can help, > > I have installed the latest version of openssh which > includes installing openssl and zlib. I am using the > default built in random feature since Solaris does not > have /dev/random out of the box. Why does it take 4-5 > mins to establish a connection to a remote machine > (or any machine) with another version of openssh on it. > Is it because of using the default random number > generator or is it config problems or what? At first I > thought it was not working and then I found out it was > just taking a long time. I am using the -v option and can > see what it is doing, but why does it take so long to do > it? It takes time for /dev/random to be filled with random bytes because it gets these random bytes from system calls, IRQ, spin of harddisks (I don't know how), and other physical sources of randomness. -- Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. -- J.K. Galbraith