[LUNI] SSH takes a lonnnnnng time

[lembark at wrkhors.com]

> 
> ssh -l jstrauss 192.168.5.10
> 
> This connects instantaneously.  But when I use Putty from my windows
> machine, it takes forever (3 min) to get the login prompt, then
> forever to
> authenticate (another couple minutes).  Once I'm in it seems normal. 
> The
> machines can ping each other fine.

Try:

    ssh -4 -l $username $hostname;

depending on whether the version of ssh was compiled to 
prefer IPv6 or IPv4 it may be timing out on the IPv6
before validating the address using IPv4.

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