A lot of people have complained about ssh being slow when connecting to others hosts when you give a hostname instead of an IP address. The problem is obviously related to DNS name resolution. At my workplace, this might also have to do with the fact that we are using the .local domain for our network (which was decided long before Apple used it for Rendezvous).However, I did not want to care where the problem really comes from, so I wrote a script that works around ssh's slow name resolution. It resolves the hostname using the host(1) utility, and calls ssh using the resulting IP address. Even after extensive web searching, I did not find out why ssh is only slow for some people (depending on various network and ssh config settings), so I do not really know whom this hint applies to. But it still might be worth a try if you think your ssh is slow when connecting, and you've already checked your...
