Comment 61 for bug 94940

I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10 (i386 desktop), and the bug is still there. Specifically, logging in to the Ubuntu machine over a LAN configured with 10.x.x.x addresses and a configured DNS server that immediately returns an NXDOMAIN response for the reverse mappings of those addresses, there is a 5-second delay before the ssh login completes, due to Ubuntu's pointless attempt at reverse mapping the net 10 address of the originating machine using mdns. Removing the "mdns4" entry from /etc/nsswitch.conf (but leaving "mdns4_minimal") fixes the problem - doing "time ssh ubuntu-machine true", the elapsed time falls from 5.03 seconds to 0.03 seconds.