On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> The DNS is a local machine on my network that acts NAT.
>
> My resolv.conf:
>
> search
> nameserver 192.168.10.200
Then i would say thats your problem, 192.168.10.200 is a non-existant
host/domain
> My hosts:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Adams
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 3:30 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux slooooow!
>
>
> On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > >%_Hi!
> >
> > Usually, Sendmail is really slow to start when there is a DNS problem.
> > you may check your /etc/hosts file or your DNS configuration in order to
> see if
> > your hostname is well defined.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > Kevin Fife wrote:
> >
> > > I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on a 450 Pentium-II computer. Everything
> > > worked fine. I installed a Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter so that I could
> share
> > > an optical drive on my network. When I started the machine the first
> time
> > > after installing the card, linux started going very slow when starting
> > > sendmail. Each service afterwards takes about 5 minutes each! I then
> shut
> > > down the computer and ripped out that card (which did work fine in
> another
> > > computer). After restarting the machine, linux still acts the same.
> > >
> > > I start at the GUI login normally, but it would not come up. So I
> pressed
> > > Alt-F2 to login as root. I was able to 'startx' and get to the GUI login
> and
> > > eventually to KDE. The shell program works normally, but Netscape takes
> > > about 5 minutes to start.
>
> No nameserver(s) defined in /etc/resolv.conf or they are unreachable,
> (no route) or you have defined localhost as your computer name in
> /etc/hosts, localhost should be somelike;
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> > > What has happened??
> > >
> > > kevin
> >
> > --
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Frederic PLE
> >
> > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> >
> >
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