I'm experiencing this too. Martin, if I use that setting you suggested, my delay improves. The ssh timeout went from about 15s to 5s. If I remove mdns from the line entirely it's 3s.
However, without mdns I can't ping .local hostnames. My original line looked like: hosts: files mdns dns Now it looks like hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns I used avahi in Edgy and mdns configured on all my PCs. -- mdns listed in nsswitch.conf causes excessive time for dns lookups https://launchpad.net/bugs/94940 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
