[ILUG] annoying fedora-ism

[oscar cassetti]

I had a problem like that with RedHat 9. The reason was
that I changed the hostname through the configuration stuff but
the name was missing /etc/hosts it was missing, Check also that
localhost points to 127.0.0.1 and the order in
/etc/host.conf

Oscar

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Frank Duignan <frank.duignan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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