Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 10:49:19 -0400 From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X on my laptop Message-ID: <3D29A66F.90308@stny.rr.com> References: <3D2927A2.90407@trini0.org> <20020708144233.GA87945@Deadcell.ant>
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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
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