It sounds like dns response isn't working, so sshd delays while trying to reverse resolve you instead of getting a generic response from the netblock owner dns (or a simple failure).  You can disable reverse lookups in sshd.conf too, but it's good to log that sort of thing.  You will start seeing cracking attempts soon.

Mine logged me in just fine right now, but I have forward and reverse dns setup for service records and such.  Your local hostname resolution can also wreak havoc on things if not right forward and reverse, digitalocean is somewhat particular about this I found.  I just used an extra domain I hadn't done much with, pointed the dns records at the domain host, and digitalocean does the reverse.

I use it as a minecraft server, dns service records make it easy then with forward/reverse.

-mb


On 03/15/2014 01:22 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


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