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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:44:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        tom@mercia.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: why does xemacs and netscape take five minuits to start?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291644060.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35C00A67.5D02C253@star.co.uk>

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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


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