--- Petri Somerkari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Talkington wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Petri Somerkari wrote: > > > >>>>>Booting still takes minutes and even opening > >>>>>applications like terminal or mozilla takes nearly 1 minute. > >>>>> > >>>This smells of a networking problem. Make sure your IP address > and > >>>hostname are in /etc/hosts, and that there are no typos there. > (Post it > >>>if you'd like assistance with that.) Ensure that 'localhost', > your > >>>hostname, and your hostname.domain (if you've assigned one) all > resolve. > >>> > > > >>At the moment /etc/hosts holds only some ip-address which doesn't > fit > >>with anything else on my LAN.... I have dlink firewall that also > works > >>as DHCP.. > >> > >>then there stands localhost.host localhost > >> > > > >Is that really what it says? If you don't have at least this: > > > >127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > > >then therein lies your problem. > > > >Get rid of the other unneeded entries. A DHCP host should not > have a > >static entry for itself (and *thwap* to Red Hat for putting it > there > >when you install as a DHCP client). > > > Now I have the /etc/hosts like you pointed out and I got rid of the > > services all have here suggested. Booting is much faster and also > app > work smoother, though still I feel their not "good" =) > > Mozilla can't find a single web-page... always : resolving > host:www.something.com and after that: can't locate server... try > again..... > > P.
You need to get the IP addresses for your ISPs DNS servers (or any DNS server you can access), then edit the file /etc/resolv.conf as follows nameserver <IP1> eg: 158.152.1.43 nameserver <IP2> (that one is demon - may work if your not with demon , dunno) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
