From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 7:52:31 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 0166237B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hivemind.trini0.org (bgp626680bgs.brick201.nj.comcast.net [68.39.132.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 376F943E3B for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsam@trini0.org) Received: (qmail 18216 invoked by uid 0); 8 Jul 2002 14:52:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO trini0.org) (192.168.0.3) by hivemind.trini0.org with SMTP; 8 Jul 2002 14:52:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3D29A72B.8090609@trini0.org> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 10:52:27 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020525 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Ntaflos Cc: 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 Thanks for the pointer. Its been a while since Ive been in that file. But I entered a line containing the box ip address and hostname, and all is well. I guess I got so accustomed to bind/named.... Thanks again 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 > > -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message