Usually I've discovered this kind of symptom is attributed to logging issues where a daemon is trying to discover the name of the IP address of the machine requesting the service. By creating authoritive DNS zone files for your network or simply entering names for each of the IP addresses which will be used in /etc/hosts can go a long way towards making your machine function when it's not connected to the Internet. There's much more to be said about the various types of name services & their configurations. The odd thing about all this is that usually, the IP addresses for which name service lookups are being performed are IP addresses inside your private network and there usually is no official name for it's ip address. Your machine tries to query the DNS servers on the outside world and they simply say there's no record for it, the lookup fails and only the numeric representation of the IP address gets logged. -Joe Baker Digital Communications Research, Inc. www.dcresearch.com www.dcresearch.com/joebaker www.dcresearch.com/resume.html 414-427-6140 On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Robert Fox wrote: > I have LM 7.2 on one machine using a realtek 8139 10/100 Ethernet card, > the DHCP host is (unfortunately) a Win2K machine with a 3Com 3C905 > 10/100 card using network sharing . . . > > When the Linux box fires up - it finds it's address no problem - and > continues happily along in the boot process. When I shutdown the DHCP > host, or just disconnect the ISDN internet access from the host machine > . . . the Linux box seems to hang - mouse movement works, but keyboard > non-responsive and nothing opens or closes . . . can't even bring up a > virtual console! > > When I allow the Win2K host back on the Internet - the Linux box "wakes > up" and continues on like nothing happened!?!?!? > > What is the rule of thumb about DHCP hosts, timeouts and where can I > tweak these parameters if any? > > Many thanks in advance . . . > > > --
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