On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 08:42:14PM +0200, Gregor Best wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 05:52:12PM +0100, Kaashif Hymabaccus wrote: > > [...] > > I know this isn't a problem with my hardware (a ThinkPad T61) being > > slow, > > [...] > > Definitely, my R61 starts a Python HTTP server almost instantly. > > > Seeing as the problem > > is worst with programs that access the network, maybe the problem has > > something to do with that? > > [...] > > Could be a problem with name resolution. Do you have an entry for your > hostname in /etc/hosts? How quick is name resolution in general, i.e. > via something like > > host localhost > host `hostname -s` > host openbsd.org > > -- > Gregor Best
Localhost was taking a very, very long time (almost exactly the 10 minutes the web server was taking to start) to resolve for some reason, so I changed the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and everything seems to work fine. I even upgraded to -current to see if it'd fix the problem! I feel silly now, the problem was so obvious. Thanks.
