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The delay of 2 minutes is caused because the OpenBSD SSH does a double reverse name lookup of the IP address that is connecting to it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-reverse_DNS

There are several ways of fixing this:

• The easy lazy insecure coward method:
  
  Disable this lookup by changing #UseDNS yes into UseDNS no In /etc/ssh/sshd_config
  
• Make the double reverse DNS lookup work by:
  
  
  1. Configuring a local DNS server, which is not that trivial if you never have done it before
     
  2. Add a an entry to the OpenBSD /etc/hosts like this:
     
     

     192.168.222.20  hercules.utp.xnet hercules

     See hosts(5) for a description of that file.