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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:38:02
Message-Id: 1133213520.10261.1.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? by Alexander Kirillov
1 On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 00:21 +0300, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
2 > > Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more
3 > > frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out,
4 > > pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to
5 > > where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su -
6 > > to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back
7 > > on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and
8 > > then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some
9 > > message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts. I
10 > > checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just be a glitch with
11 > > monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so
12 > > heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was running just fine
13 > > - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down,
14 > > but everything inside my router should have been fine...
15 >
16 > Do you have nscd running? Try to stop or restart it. It can be a real
17 > nuisance when internet connection goes down.
18 > It's also a good idea to run dns server locally
19 > if only to troubleshoot name resolution problems.
20 > HTH,
21 > Sasha
22 >
23
24 I don't have a full DNS server for my domain. Each computer on my
25 network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file. Is there some way I can
26 make it use that for DNS lookups locally?
27
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo@××××××××××.ar>
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? Alexander Kirillov <nevis2us@××××××××.su>
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? Alexander Kirillov <nevis2us@××××××××.su>
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? Timur Aydin <ta@××××××.org>