Hi Joseph, Thanks for your reply. I have two working nameservers defined in /etc/resolv.conf. I should mention that these AIX servers were successfully running openssh 4.5. It's only since the upgrade to 4.6 that the connection pause occurs. Regards, David listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 21/06/2008 07:11:42 AM: > > --- On Thu, 6/19/08, David R Green <dgreen49@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, sorry if I've sent this to the wrong list. > > > > I'm having a strange issue where establishing an SSH > > connection to an AIX > > box running openssh v4.6 pauses for approximately 30 > > seconds during the > > connection process (I have UseDNS set to no). > > > > > > Has anyone seen this before? Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > David Green > > Do you have nameservers defined in /etc/resolv.conf on the server? > If not, put a nameserver in there. > > > >