From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 7:48:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB4637B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (mailout6-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6573F43E3B for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: from stny.rr.com (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id g68EmCp20980 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:48:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D29A66F.90308@stny.rr.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 10:49:19 -0400 From: John Bleichert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X on my laptop References: <3D2927A2.90407@trini0.org> <20020708144233.GA87945@Deadcell.ant> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Agreed - I've had my X startup slow to a crawl if it can't resolve the host machine's hostname correctly. Andreas Ntaflos wrote: >On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 01:48:18AM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: > > >>When my laptop isn't connected to the network X takes forever to load. >>I read a post about this about it a while ago, but I cannot find it now. >>Im running XFree 4.2.0 on FBSD 4.6 via startx. >>What needs to be set to disable the network routines? >> >> >> > >Dunno what exactly has to be done to disable X's network routines, and >I generally think that such a thing would not be really possible, >since its whole client/server arch. But I may be completely wrong. I >can only suggest that you check your /etc/hosts file. There should be >the entries for your hostnames and IP-Addresses. I've found that wrong >entries in there often cause problems like the ones you describe. Not >only with X but also with sendmail, samba, ssh, etc. > >Generally, /etc/hosts seems to be underestimated by most people and >admins I know... > >But don't quote me on that. > >HTH >regards > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message