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 1Egr0X-0000b9-7s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:57:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jASLv0Rp014136; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:57:00 GMT Received: from infoline.su (mail.infoline.su [83.217.192.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jASLqu7V013954 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:52:57 GMT Received: from baikal.iproducts.test ([10.129.16.199]) by infoline.su (infoline.su) (Cipher TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.1.R) with ESMTP id md50000729174.msg for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:59:35 +0300 Received: from [10.10.0.1] (baikal.iproducts.test [10.10.0.1]) by baikal.iproducts.test (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jASLqnbV023302 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:52:49 +0300 Message-ID: <438B7C30.2030500@infoline.su> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:52:48 +0300 From: Alexander Kirillov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051014) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? References: <1133211269.25761.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <438B74F6.4000604@infoline.su> <1133213520.10261.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> In-Reply-To: <1133213520.10261.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Processed: infoline.su, Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:59:35 +0300 (not processed: spam filter disabled) X-MDRemoteIP: 10.129.16.199 X-Return-Path: nevis2us@infoline.su X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-MDAV-Processed: infoline.su, Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:59:36 +0300 X-Archives-Salt: d21589c3-5caf-438a-9f91-934929694c3b X-Archives-Hash: 169ca5b94f044102e2eadddd316b9c46 >>>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. > > 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? The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in the order defined in your /etc/host.conf Anyway I think it makes sense to go through the chores of setting up local dns server ones to save some time later down the road. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list