<Snipped> > > > > I would suggest you turn of DNS, caching name server, named, routed and > > yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and understand > > how to correctly configure them > > seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i need of the ones you > mentioned as i am attempting to setup a server/dumb terminal network as per > www.ltsp.org and need dns. the rest were deactivated as per your > suggestion. Dennis M. had mentioned that on his system leaving the bios set > to auto detect contributed to a slow and unstable system and suggested > doing a hd detect in bios. perhaps with both suggestions i can get this > thing moving! > > thank you (and Dennis M.) for your time and suggestion. > -iggy DNS, if not configured correctly is one of those things that will sure as hell start a system to crawl, as your box might decide it needs to look on the Internet for //iggy.ISP.com/home/Iggy/fileIneed.txt instead of /home/iggy/fileineed.txt, and look to the dns servers "upline" before timing out and looking for the file where it is supposed to be. this might only take ten seconds while your network is up, but 10 seconds added to the time to open each file can sure make it seem like it is crawling. IMHO, better to not try to setup a dns server untill the rest of the box is setup correctly.
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