Re: [gentoo-user] Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

[Mick]

On Sunday 04 Jan 2015 18:45:38 Urs Schütz wrote:
> On 01/04/15 15:20, Mick wrote:

> > In my /etc/hosts I have something like this:
> >
> > # IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases
> > 127.0.0.1       cad.homeLAN localhost cad
> >
> > ::1             cad.homeLAN localhost cad
> >
> > See if this solves your problem.
> >
> > PS. I remember a thread in this M/L about the correct way to configure a
> > domain name and why how the Gentoo Handbook was wrong.  I think there was
> > a bug opened about it, too.
>
> Setting up /etc/hosts exactly as above did resolve the slow hostname -f
> lookup.
>
> urs@cadd ~ $ time hostname -v -f
> gethostname()=`cadd'
> Resolving `cadd' ...
> Result: h_name=`cadd.homeLAN'
> Result: h_aliases=`localhost'
> Result: h_aliases=`cadd'
> Result: h_addr_list=`::1'
> cadd.homeLAN
>
> real    0m0.001s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s
>
> :-) Thanks for your help.

You're welcome!  :-)

Please note that I assumed the name of your host PC is "cad" and the arbitrary 
name of your local domain is "homeLAN".  You may want to change these to suit 
your needs.

-- 
Regards,
Mick