Morning all,
My laptop at home has fedora 8 on it and runs quite well nearly all of the
time. I have noticed a problem however when I lose a wireless network
connection or if I plug into an ethernet hub that doesn't connect anywhere
else. What goes on is that I could say launch a terminal session and I see
the nice "starting terminal" button in the status bar and then nothing for
what seems like an age. I initially thought that this is the infamous ipv6
problem so I disabled ipv6. My current theory is that the problem has to do
with name servers and gnome waiting for a query to time out. Any thoughts?
As a by the way, the same sort of problem arises at boot when I plug into an
isolated hub. Fedora seems to assume that internet/dns access is available
and hangs up for a period while it starts its MTA. This does not happen
when laptop is plugged out from hub (wireless only starts up for me at the
end of the boot process).
f.
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