-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael wrote: | Hi Michael, | | You are right. It has something to do with the /etc/hosts file. | Apparently, I had only this: | 192.168.1.1 linux_box | The alias wasn't declared. | And when I changed it to: | 192.168.1.1 linux_box localhost.localdomain localhost | The delay disappears altogether. | I had to compare this against another linux box that was freshly | installed. | I guess it was trying to resolve "localhost".
In theory, localhost should always point to 127.0.0.1 - largely for security reasons. That means /etc/hosts should read: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 192.168.1.1 linux_box One reason may be that some programs might reslove localhost to determine which interface to bind to. In some instances, you want the application to listen on (lo) only to make the service only accessable locally (i.e. xfont server or perhaps a locally running version of sendmail or mysql). If you specify in the conf that you want it to listen on "localhost:6000" for example, you may be opening that port up to your entire network if localhost resolves to something other than 127.0.0.1. Another bad case example would be for client services (such as X) which are supposed to work w/ those services bound to localhost in their config - if they attempted to resolve localhost and got a real IP vs. 127.0.0.1, they may not be able to properly access a service if said service was still listening only on 127.0.0.1. While either/neither/both of these examples may be valid, the possibility of them occuring does exist. To touch on the original problem - if your loopback interface (lo) isn't starting, that's a whole different problem. i.e. if localhost resoved to 127.0.0.1, but the machine wasn't able to "communicate" via that IP.. etc. etc. Hope that makes some sense. - -Rick - -- Rick Johnson, RHCE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux/WAN Administrator - Medata, Inc. PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Signed and/or encpryted for everyone's protection. iEYEARECAAYFAj4CcIMACgkQIgQdhlSHZgM07gCfdoUK00nQacFSGMtWI3NO635M p6sAn0JdtStR6nzUGLq2iD+kuw8STww7 =663h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
