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after installing build-essential (not pre-installed on Minibian) it seems like ssh takes a really long time to connect. On OS X, when I press enter in the terminal, the text to enter the password would appear immediately. After installing build-essential, it takes between 5-10s for the password text to appear. Has anyone noticed similar issues?

Syslog entry with dhclient:

Aug  5 19:35:04 raspberrypi dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Aug  5 19:35:07 raspberrypi dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Aug  5 19:35:07 raspberrypi dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
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  • Any clue in /var/log/syslog?
    – goldilocks ♦
    Aug 5, 2015 at 13:53
  • Will check asap and report back!
    – qwertz
    Aug 5, 2015 at 13:54
  • There is nothing about ssh or any related stuff in syslog, only some CRON entries and dhclient
    – qwertz
    Aug 5, 2015 at 16:25
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    If dhclient is having problems, so will your inet connection.
    – goldilocks ♦
    Aug 5, 2015 at 16:27
  • My inet connection works fine, I can connect to nginx no problem without delay
    – qwertz
    Aug 5, 2015 at 17:40

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Sounds like a DNS time out on the rPi. Check that /etc/resolv.conf is configured properly and that you can reach the DNS server(s) you have defined.

To read the contents of that file:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

To test a DNS query with your system's configuration:

nslookup stackexchange.com

To test a DNS query with an alternate name server:

nslookup stackexchange.com 8.8.8.8  # Google name server
nslookup stackexchange.com 208.67.222.222 # OpenDNS name server

If none of the queries work verify if any of them respond to ping (including the name server(s) you have defined in your resolv.conf. If you are unable to ping them there's something wrong with your network settings (e.g. gateway not defined properly).

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  • Thank you, I really had a unreachable dns server in my resolv.conf file :)
    – qwertz
    Aug 8, 2015 at 6:53

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