Re: Large slowdowns / networking related

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn joshuaeichorn com>]

I actually just ran into this on a co-workers redhat 8 machine.  He 
added a bogus nameserver to the top of his resolv.conf and every app 
took 3 or 4 seconds to start.  Might be hard to detect but if looking up 
your own hostname takes a long time things do slow down.
-joshua eichorn

Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 13:15, Mike Hearn wrote:
>  
>
> > A while ago Mark Finlay noted that suddenly all his apps took ages to
> > start up. I've seen reports of this several times before, but this is the
> > first one I've seen that was succesfully resolved:
> >    
>
> 	I think there is supposed to be a dialog that hits you at login that
> detects the usual bogons such as not being able to resolve your own
> hostname; perhaps we're missing one.
>
> 	Hmm,
>
> 		Michael.
>
>