LinuxQuestions.org - openssh client EXTREMELY unresponsive during connect

Hi!
I have an interesting problem with the OpenSSH client.
First off, putty works fine -- the server is perfectly fine, it's the client.

When I try to connect to my (or any -- tried one at rootshell.be, too), I type the command:
ssh jakykong@host
And then I sit and wait for about 10 minutes w/ the ssh program doing seemingly NOTHING, until it finally asks for my password.

Putty asks for my password almost instantly when I run it.

Does anyone know what could cause this problem?

OpenSSH config file /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Code:



# This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file.  See

# ssh_config(5) for more information.  This file provides defaults for

# users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration files

# or on the command line.



# Configuration data is parsed as follows:

#  1. command line options

#  2. user-specific file

#  3. system-wide file

# Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set.

# Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the

# configuration file, and defaults at the end.



# Site-wide defaults for some commonly used options.  For a comprehensive

# list of available options, their meanings and defaults, please see the

# ssh_config(5) man page.



Host *



#  ForwardAgent no

#  ForwardX11 no

#  ForwardX11Trusted yes

#  RhostsRSAAuthentication no

#  RSAAuthentication yes

  PasswordAuthentication yes

#  HostbasedAuthentication no

#  BatchMode no

#  CheckHostIP yes

#  AddressFamily any

#  ConnectTimeout 0

  StrictHostKeyChecking ask

#  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity

#  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

#  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

#  Port 22

#  Protocol 2,1

#  Cipher 3des

#  Ciphers aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc

#  EscapeChar ~

#  Tunnel no

#  TunnelDevice any:any

#  PermitLocalCommand no

    SendEnv LANG LC_*

    HashKnownHosts yes

    GSSAPIAuthentication yes

    GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no

It's the stock config file with debian etch.