After upgrading to Tiger, I noticed an infuriatingly long delay when trying to connect to remote hosts via SSH in Terminal.
After some poking around, I finally figured out that SSH under 10.4 is checking for IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses, and is hanging until its search times out. The solution is simple:
AddressFamily inet
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