From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 16:45:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03201 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:45:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03155 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:45:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA25019; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:44:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:44:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: tom@mercia.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does xemacs and netscape take five minuits to start? In-Reply-To: <35C00A67.5D02C253@star.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Tom Brown wrote: > last week I was trying to set-up stand alone DNS on my machine and > something happened. What, it exploded, fell from a ten-story building, ??? :-) > The 'sendmail' daemon takes ages to start at boot up, and xemacs and > netsacpe take five minuits to start in X. > > Any ideas would be welcomed. Check the nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf and make sure you can reach them and they are offering name service. Perhaps your default route got squashed? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message