Bug#413846: Acknowledgement (openssh-client: post-4.3p2-6 openssh gets kerberos-related hang (non-root only))

[Mau <mavog@hotmail.com>]

> Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
>
> Ah, okay, so not Avahi.  You have a valid Kerberos configuration and
> active Kerberos tickets, so ssh wants to do GSSAPI authentication, but
> your connection to your Kerberos realm is very slow or just times out.
> Is that a correct summary?

I'm experiencing the same issue (very long time required to access an
SSH server) and I can solve both with -o 'GSSAPIAuthentication no' and
stopping the avahi-daemon service.

Thanks

Mau