# how to solve ansible ssh timeout problem

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-solve-ansible-ssh-timeout-problem/31156>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 29, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-solve-ansible-ssh-timeout-problem/31156 "2019-08-29T03:24:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mac\_Kam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@Mac\_Kam](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mac_Kam)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-solve-ansible-ssh-timeout-problem/31156/1 "2019-08-29T03:24:51Z")

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I have facing a problem of ssh timeout when using ansible.  
ssh [user@192.168.1.1](mailto:user@192.168.1.1) just wait maybe 30s then prompt password to entry, but when using ansible, it will prompt unreachable for the host, how can i config in the yaml?  
Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-solve-ansible-ssh-timeout-problem/31156/2 "2019-08-29T04:18:51Z")

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Look at the —timeout option, it’s set to 10s by defaults so that’s too short for your case:

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-playbook.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-playbook.html)

Dick

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**Author:** ![Mac\_Kam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@Mac\_Kam](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mac_Kam)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-solve-ansible-ssh-timeout-problem/31156/3 "2019-08-29T04:28:55Z")

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Thanks your answer, I have already set the 60s in ansible,cfg, I can see debug log -o ConnectTimeout=60, but unfortunately no improvement.

Mac Kam於 2019年8月29日星期四 UTC+8上午11時24分51秒寫道：

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-solve-ansible-ssh-timeout-problem/31156/4 "2019-08-29T08:22:17Z")

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First things first - what timeout DO you see with ansible?  
And is it consistent across different runs?