When I am away from the office, I use SSH port forwarding to access
applications inside my company.  However, I'm noticing on my new laptop
that gnome-2.6 becomes unusable (>2 minute delays to open gedit or
nautilus) when my SSH tunnels are up.  No problems when SSH is
shutdown.  Feels like a name resolution problem similar to localhost
missing from /etc/hosts.

Here is how I am evoking SSH w/port forwarding:

$ ssh -2 -L8080:localhost:80 -L25:smtp.mycompany.com:25
-L110:pop.myisp.com:110 -L111:pop.mycompany.com:110 me@ssh.mycompany.com

Explanation of ports:
8080: i proxy localhost:8080 to reach internal websites
  25: forward my outbound mail to company's smtp gateway
 110: localhost:110 pulls mail from my personal isp mailbox
 111: localhost:111 pulls mail from my company's mailbox

I configure my web browsers to use proxy localhost:8080.  I configure my
mail client (Evolution) to pull mail from localhost:110 and
localhost:111.

This all works fine, but while SSH is up gnome apps are painfully slow. 
As soon as I close the SSH session, all the gnome apps I tried to start
suddenly pop up.  Hmmm.  Am I forwarding a port that gnome is trying to
use?

...Kevin

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