I've experienced a few outages (mainly due to inclement weather), but not seen my Gentoo system slow down at all; however, I have seen my Fedora Core 4 and Mandrake 9.2 boxes slow down when their connection to the Internet is lost, but that is normally due to some service / app that relies on Internet connectivity. I'd check to see what services and applications are running and determine which of them may be causing the problem. On 11/28/05, Nick Rout wrote: > > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 +0000 > Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > > > > > I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont > > experience a slowdown when my internet connection goes down (which it > > invariably does because my ISP reboots its servers every 28 days as a > > policy, thereby disconnecting me ). Chances are its a particular program > > thats trying to connect to the net and failing, thereby using cycles in > > new attempts. > > > > While we are at it, does there exist a program that can monitor my > > internet connection and run a script if the net is down (like a restart > > script)? I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart > > everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. > > many programs do a dns lookup on connection, to see who is trying to > connect. It should be managed on your lan with /etc/hosts if you have it > sorted properly. > > can you ping via name to other machines on your lan? > > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > Nick Rout > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Shawn Singh