The default Fedora ssh_config file comes with GSSAPIAuthentication set to "yes". This causes a DNS query in an attempt to resolve _kerberos.<hostname> whenever ssh is invoked. During periods when connectivity to the outside world is interrupted for whatever reason, the ssh session won't proceed until the DNS query times out. Not really a problem, just more of an annoyance when trying to ssh to another machine on the LAN. Is there a reason why the default ssh_config comes with GSSAPIAuthentication set to yes? Thanks, Jay