Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

[Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com>]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 00:21 +0300, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more
> > frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.)  When it goes out,
> > pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down.  It's gotten to
> > where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su -
> > to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back
> > on.  This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and
> > then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some
> > message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts.  I
> > checked it and /etc/hosts was correct.  Must just be a glitch with
> > monodevelop.  My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so
> > heavily on connecting to the internet?  My network was running just fine
> > - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down,
> > but everything inside my router should have been fine...
> 
> Do you have nscd running? Try to stop or restart it. It can be a real 
> nuisance when internet connection goes down.
> It's also a good idea to run dns server locally
> if only to troubleshoot name resolution problems.
> HTH,
> Sasha
> 

I don't have a full DNS server for my domain.  Each computer on my
network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file.  Is there some way I can
make it use that for DNS lookups locally?

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