Consider changing your name servers in /etc/resolv.conf I use: Google's DNS 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Open DNS's DNS: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) jd@twingeckos.com On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:22 PM, keith smith wrote: > > Hi, > > I signed up for a $5 VPS at Digital Ocean last night. Today I am ssh'ing > in and it take about 10 seconds for the response asking me for my passwd. > I'm using ssh from the command line on my linux workstation. > > I work on several other hardware servers and the respons is almost > instantanious. Is the slow response an indication the vps is going to be > slow? Or maybe it is something I am doing - I'm using the VPS' IP instead > of the hostname. > > Thanks for your feedback!! > Keith > > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >