In article <200206181302.0345@th00.opsion.fr> you wrote: > Problem is I don't know what entries I should add to > /etc/hosts. Entries Run tcpdump or use a nameserver which uses query logging. You most likely need at least your hostname with and without your domain. if you use ntp you might need that also. the easiest thing is to observ your boot and at the place where it takes the most time look what hosts are configured. very common are ntpdate and nfs. > Some programs waiting very long for the response from > something I do not know are: telnet, syslogd, > XFree86. Each of them take about 10 seconds to > connect/complete/start, respectively. One example is > "telnet localhost". hmm.. do you have the PARANOID option in hosts.deny? BTW: dont use telnet :) Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html