On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 6:30 pm, et wrote: > <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.
When I got dns wrong it affected absolutely everything. Opening a file from the desktop took upwards of a minute. Sure the startup was very, very slow, but so was every other time the system needed it. Maybe this setup has a correct entry coupled with one or more incorrect ones, so that eventually gets there, while mine just had to time out. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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