File transfers using SCP hang in the process

Issue

• While transferring files between two local systems, the transfer hangs as shown below:

scp -r <Hostname>/ root@<Public IP>:/<Destination>
root@113.128.179.243's password:
filesystems                                                                     100%  350     0.3KB/s   00:00
mdstat                                                                          100%   40     0.0KB/s   00:00
mounts                                                                          100% 1339     1.3KB/s   00:00
interrupts                                                                      100%   64KB  63.6KB/s   00:00

• An inspection of the destination system once the process hangs shows a few files created, but having no contents.

• An examination of the process via strace shows the following output. Please note the Connection timed out and Broken Pipe messages in the following:

221433 09:10:56.259813 select(7, [3 4], [3], NULL, NULL) = 2 (in [3], out [3])
21433 09:26:24.952604 read(3, 0x7fff8024f290, 8192) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
21433 09:26:24.958012 rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, NULL, {0x7fd15055ca90, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fd14e0f2900}, 8) = 0
21433 09:26:24.958544 rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fd14e0f2900}, NULL, 8) = 0
21433 09:26:24.958836 write(3, "<data>"..., 32560) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
21433 09:26:24.959258 --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
21433 09:26:24.959442 write(2, "Write failed: Broken pipe\r\n", 27) = 27
21433 09:26:24.962016 exit_group(255)   = ?
21432 09:26:24.962745 <... read resumed> "", 1) = 0
21432 09:26:24.962799 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
21432 09:26:24.962845 write(2, "lost connection\n", 16) = 16
21432 09:26:24.963136 exit_group(1)     = ?