[ale] Name resolutoin in the WM (fixed)

[Christopher Fowler]

I added this line to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1               ze1250.linxdev.com ze1250

Now programs start immediately.

I'm not too crazy about this gnome "feature".



On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 08:17 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I've noticed something strange on FC5.  If I'm on a slow network will it
> takes a little longer to resolve names then startup of new programs take
> longer.  Just now I clicked on my xterm icon it takes 35 seconds for the
> xterm to appear.  At home it immediate.  The difference is that at home
> I use a caching name server.  Here I use comcast's name servers.  My
> only guess it has something to do with the hostname of the laptop and
> gnome trying to resolve that.  I can think of anything else it would be
> resolving
> 
> Sure enough if I do a tcpdump the minute I click that icon it does this:
> 
> 08:16:01.147187 IP 192.168.2.131.32789 > 192.168.10.1.domain:  17401+
> AAAA? ze1250.linxdev.com. (36)
> 08:16:01.159054 IP 192.168.2.131.32790 > 192.168.2.1.domain:  57632+
> PTR? 1.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa. (43)
> 08:16:06.145979 IP 192.168.2.131.32789 > 192.168.10.1.domain:  17401+
> AAAA? ze1250.linxdev.com. (36)
> 08:16:06.158881 IP 192.168.2.131.32790 > 192.168.2.1.domain:  57632+
> PTR? 1.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa. (43)
> 08:16:06.319485 IP 192.168.2.1.domain > 192.168.2.131.32790:  57632
> NXDomain* 0/1/0 (120)
> 
> 
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