Charles, Your computer is using DHCP to acquire an IP address from the router. As part of this transaction, the DHCP server typically also provides DNS server addresses so that your computer knows where to ask for translations from host name to ip addresses. Since you're connected to a Telstra network, it's not surprising that your router is configured to use their DNS servers. In fact, your router may be using the DHCP to acquire its IP address and DNS information from Telstra.
The 2-3 second pauses sound like an application (or set of them) is blocking while waiting to perform a DNS lookups. Even on a single host, the desktop uses many networking protocols for interprocess communication. If the lookup for 'localhost' fails, these messages can get stuck. Thanks, brian On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Charles Hackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm an ignorant newbie who just installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 Kernel 2.6.24-19 > generic on an Advent 4211B (? = MSI Wind). One of my (fruitless) > attempts to get the wifi card working was with Ndiswrapper. I had > previously been using a wired connection to my Linksys WRT54G router, > which connected to the internet via a cable modem and Telstra Bigpond as > a service provider. > > The above problem came up accompanied by 2-3 minute pauses before any > application would run. I fixed it using the suggestion from Serenity: > "go to the System Control Panel in the GUI: > "->Admin -->Network ---> UNLOCK ----General: Remove Domain Name > "Go to Hosts (Under Network) - delete 127.0.1.1 > "Add 127.0.1.1" > > However - and this is reason for this post - I was fascinated to find > that "Hosts" had contained references to Telstra which must have been > acquired somehow by the network/wifi driver from some interrogation of > the router. Since the problems only started after running ndiswrapper, > I presume that this is responsible, but just how I cannot imagine. > > -- > sudo fails if it cannot resolve the local hostname and no MTA is installed > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32906 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- sudo fails if it cannot resolve the local hostname and no MTA is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
