Sorry.... that should be 'host.conf' (singular) instead of 'hosts.conf'. Tim. On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 14:47, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colin Charles" > From: "Paul Smith" > From: "Tim Peoples" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "gnome-list" <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:26 > Subject: Re: Gnome very slow > Gentlemen since you all ask basicly the same questions I chose to reply all > at once to reduce traffic. > > > > > Does your /etc/hosts file resolve localhost correctly? > > > > > > The first line of that file should be: > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost > > > > /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > > Along those same lines... you might want to check your /etc/hosts.conf > > /etc/hosts.conf > no such file or directory > > > and /etc/nsswitch.conf to verify the order in which your machine is > > trying to resolve names/addresses. > > /etc/nsswitch.conf > password: files nisplus nis > shadow: " " " > group: " " " > hosts: files nisplus nis dns > bootprams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files > ethers: files > netmask: files > network: files > protocols: files > rpc: files > services: files > netgroup: nisplus > publickey: nisplus > automount: nisplus > aliases: nisplus > > Not very informative to me. > > > > If it wants to use DNS before looking in the local hosts file then > > I'd imagine you seeing terribly degraded performance if there really > > is no network configured. > > > > >Have Camel, Will Code > I would really love to see the code for a Camel. > > Regards; > Hoyt > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- _______________________________________________________________________ Timothy E. Peoples Core Technologies Group tpeoples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
