title: Delay when attempting to SSH to a system
body: <p>I am facing a delay of about 5-6 seconds when I try to ssh from my system to a friend's system. Here is the verbose output of the command :</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>zeus@athena:~$ ssh -v ashwin@192.168.40.211
  OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu7, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
  debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
  debug1: Applying options for *
  debug1: Connecting to 192.168.40.211 [192.168.40.211] port 22.
  debug1: Connection established.
  debug1: identity file /home/zeus/.ssh/identity type -1
  debug1: identity file /home/zeus/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
  debug1: Checking blacklist file /usr/share/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048
  debug1: Checking blacklist file /etc/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048
  debug1: identity file /home/zeus/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
  debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-3ubuntu1
  debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-3ubuntu1 pat OpenSSH*
  debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
  debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu7
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
  debug1: kex: server-&gt;client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
  debug1: kex: client-&gt;server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024&lt;1024&lt;8192) sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
  debug1: Host '192.168.40.211' is known and matches the RSA host key.
  debug1: Found key in /home/zeus/.ssh/known_hosts:71
  debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
  
  &lt;---- delay 4-5 seconds------&gt;
  
  
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
  debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
  debug1: Trying private key: /home/zeus/.ssh/identity
  debug1: Offering public key: /home/zeus/.ssh/id_rsa
  debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
  debug1: Trying private key: /home/zeus/.ssh/id_dsa
  debug1: Next authentication method: password
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone help me figure out how i can get rid of this delay?</p>