I don't know if this will help you or not but it sounds like you're having
a problem similar to what happened to me. The solution for me was to make
my hostname be a FQDN in my hosts file. My machine is called syslang and I
have no domain. So I added the following to my hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
192.168.0.1 syslang syslang.localhost.localdomain
Now it comes up quicker than a greased whatever. I don't know if this is
overkill or not. It might be that I could get away with
192.168.0.1 syslang syslang.localdomain
But give it a shot and lemme know if it helps. I suspect that this should
be in some FAQ somewhere.
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
=>A few days ago I bought a LinkSys DSL/cable modem firewall router for my
=>home lan which is connected to Mediaone through a cable modem. I decided
=>to modify my system's setups to use DHCP. The LinkSys router acts as a
=>DHCP server and each system as it comes on-line queries the server and
=>gets both an IP address (in the 192.168.1.* range) and the DNS server
=>addresses for Mediaone.
=>
=>However, when I tried to setup my Linux system, the system hung when it
=>tried to start sendmail and then hung again when it got to the Apache
=>httpd daemon. I waited for the services to timeout and once I was able to
=>login, I tried to start X which hung trying to get the host's IP address.
=>I was temporarily able to correct all of this by editing my /etc/hosts
=>file and adding the system's hostname and the IP address that the DHCP
=>server had given it (specifically 192.168.1.101). Somehow this doesn't
=>quite seem correct. I would expect X to get the IP address of the local
=>host by some other means than either DNS or the hosts file. Perhaps all of
=>these services should be using the localhost address?
=>
=>Any ideas would be welcome,
=>
=>-Alex
=>
=>
=>Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
=>
=>"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
=>said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
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