this is probably a control persist issue, try disabling those options (empty ssh_args in ansible.cfg) and see if that also fixes the problem.
if so, you can switch to paramiko (its faster than ssh w/o control persist) or play with the timeout settings (default 60s). In some cases it has to do with older Openssh versions not behaving well or using different ssh server software. -- Brian Coca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAJ5XC8%3DozdOErLAqAqVT4nBY-9mQ6G1rwubcioVPNmL5qaDy_g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.