Quoting Richard Harke ([email protected]): > When I use my laptop without a network connection, it becomes very, > very slow launching applications. I've done some tracing and > apparently it sends some kind of request to a DNS server. Not just any > DNS but openDNS in particular. When it's off-net, it waits for the > time-out before continuing. So two quesions Why contact DNS for any > app launch? (This includes apps that have no possibility of using the > net)
This is difficult to answer without specifics. > 2nd. Why openDNS? I had never heard of them before and certainly > haven't signed up for their service. You'll have to answer this question from local knowledge. Obviously, somebody using your laptop at some point did something that re-pointed /etc/resolv.conf to them -- and nothing's overridden that, since. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
