On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 00:21 +0300, Alexander Kirillov wrote: > > Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more > > frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, > > pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to > > where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - > > to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back > > on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and > > then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some > > message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts. I > > checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just be a glitch with > > monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so > > heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was running just fine > > - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down, > > but everything inside my router should have been fine... > > Do you have nscd running? Try to stop or restart it. It can be a real > nuisance when internet connection goes down. > It's also a good idea to run dns server locally > if only to troubleshoot name resolution problems. > HTH, > Sasha >
I don't have a full DNS server for my domain. Each computer on my network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file. Is there some way I can make it use that for DNS lookups locally? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
