From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EgqhG-0003CY-6D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:38:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jASLb2RI012938; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:37:04 GMT Received: from bullet.espersunited.com (24-117-226-93.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.226.93]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jASLVsSR015292 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:31:54 GMT Received: from camille.espersunited.com (camille.espersunited.com [192.168.1.3]) by bullet.espersunited.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jASLVrVq031969 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:31:54 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? From: Michael Sullivan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <438B74F6.4000604@infoline.su> References: <1133211269.25761.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <438B74F6.4000604@infoline.su> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:32:00 -0600 Message-Id: <1133213520.10261.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba9e67e4-a7a6-401e-addd-698b8abe1345 X-Archives-Hash: 3e28b93d430106dec911ad14dac60998 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list