Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

[Alexander Kirillov]

>>>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.

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