I was connecting to a sshd on a Debian Etch which ran on the same machine under VMWare. The guest OS has a 192.168.x.y type IP (dhcp from VMWare) on a separate virtual interface.
I applied William's solution (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/84899/comments/22).
In /etc/nsswitch.conf, I replaced :
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
with
hosts: files dns
From 5-10 seconds I now get less than one second wait time before the password prompt is shown.
No other edits to ssh_config were needed.
I was connecting to a sshd on a Debian Etch which ran on the same machine under VMWare.
The guest OS has a 192.168.x.y type IP (dhcp from VMWare) on a separate virtual interface.
I applied William's solution (https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ openssh/ +bug/84899/ comments/ 22).
In /etc/nsswitch.conf, I replaced :
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
with
hosts: files dns
From 5-10 seconds I now get less than one second wait time before the password prompt is shown.
No other edits to ssh_config were needed.