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>>>Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more |
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>>>frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, |
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>>>pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to |
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>>>where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - |
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>>>to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back |
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>>>on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and |
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>>>then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some |
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>>>message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts. I |
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>>>checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just be a glitch with |
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>>>monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so |
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>>>heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was running just fine |
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>>>- just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down, |
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>>>but everything inside my router should have been fine... |
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>>Do you have nscd running? Try to stop or restart it. It can be a real |
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>>nuisance when internet connection goes down. |
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>>It's also a good idea to run dns server locally |
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>>if only to troubleshoot name resolution problems. |
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>>HTH, |
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>>Sasha |
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> I don't have a full DNS server for my domain. Each computer on my |
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> network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file. Is there some way I can |
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> make it use that for DNS lookups locally? |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server |
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may be of use though I've never tried dnsmasq myself. |
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