http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5991
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-10 22:35 ------- Thierry, this boils down to the question of how should one assign the host name to a machine that's on a dhcp on a private network, and still manage to avoid the slowdown in KDE. Of course, just like in bug 4227, initscripts/drakconnect set the host name to be the same as the host-name field provided in the lease, but the difference is that in this case we can't solve the problem by doing a reverse lookup on the IP. fixed-address 192.168.1.33; option host-name "dhcppc0"; My recommendation is that this bug be reopened and that drakconnect get the functionality that is needed to solve this problem. This problem may potentially affect all users that are behind a router that has a DHCP server inside of it. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: Hello. I have a router and I use drakconnect to set up my adsl connection with dhcp. THE PROBLEM: Drakconnect apparently sets up something wrong, since kde windows take about 5 seconds to open, and gnome complains that /etc/hosts is wrong. On the other hand, if I choose a static ip assignment and manual DNS assignment (as opposed to dhcp), windows open instantly. The difference is huge. POSSIBLE REASONS: I'm no expert, but I am going to report what others told me. :-) 1) Some kde developer told me it must be a problem not in dhcp, but in dns. unfortunately, drakconnect doesn't allow me to specify dns if I choose dhcp. 2) Someone else told me that the hostname does not resolve because the /etc/hosts file produced by drakconnect is broken, and I should manually specify a fully qualified hostname in /etc/hosts, together with dhcp. He told me that dhcp allows the hostname to be specified OR assigned automatically. But it seems to me that drakconnect does not allow a hostname to be specified with dhcp. Maybe this is the problem. I hope I' ve been of help. cheers!
