Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Alexander Kirillov
The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in the order defined in your /etc/host.conf You mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? I probably do. Is /etc/host.conf still of any use? Actually, I'm not sure. I've always edited nsswitch.conf to get it to do what I want, with good

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-29 Thread Ben Edwards
On 28/11/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet. Kinda like the a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower. It just keeps

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Devon Miller
On 11/28/05, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that managesconnection/disconnection from the network.I think it was for laptops. But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in portage.I wonder if it would work? Rob. That would be ifplugd. It listens for a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:27:23 -0500, Devon Miller wrote: I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that manages connection/disconnection from the network. I think it was for laptops. But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in portage. That would be ifplugd. It listens for a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Michael Sullivan wrote: can you ping via name to other machines on your lan? Yes I can. maybe put some of your local machines into your /etc/hosts file, so it won't attempt to do dns lookups on them. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:58 -0500, Billy Holmes wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: can you ping via name to other machines on your lan? Yes I can. maybe put some of your local machines into your /etc/hosts file, so it won't attempt to do dns lookups on them. Every computer in my network is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Timur Aydin
Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? Having the exact same copy on each system does not sound correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:07 +0200, Timur Aydin wrote: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? Having

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Manuel McLure
Timur Aydin wrote: Having the exact same copy on each system does not sound correct. There should be a localhost alias in each /etc/hosts and it should point to the IP address of the relevant machine. No. Nononono. localhost should always point to 127.0.0.1. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Josh Helmer
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 08:17 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: Yeah. Each one has an entry that says 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost and then it has an entry consisting of 192.168.1.? name.espersunited.com name Looks correct to me. Someone may have already suggested

[gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:54:29 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 |

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet. Kinda like the a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower. It just keeps trying til it gets something or the phone dies.On 11/28/05,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread andy
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:06:44 -0500 Danyelle Gragsone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think there are running files that you dont need without a net-device, try to find these processes/services with ps -aux and rc-update -s and stop/kill them greets to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Rob
Michael Sullivan 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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: 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? Edit /etc/host.conf - it's well

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Dale
Danyelle Gragsone wrote: to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet. Kinda like the a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower. It just keeps trying til it gets something or

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Dale wrote: Danyelle Gragsone wrote: to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet. Kinda like the a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower. It just keeps trying til it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in the order defined in your /etc/host.conf You mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? I probably do. Is /etc/host.conf still of any use? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:40 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 + Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont experience a slowdown when my internet connection goes down (which it invariably does because my ISP reboots its servers every 28 days as a policy, thereby

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 + Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont experience a slowdown when my internet connection goes down (which it invariably does because my ISP

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Dale
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. It's funny that you say that. One of the first things I asked my ISP when I was looking for one, what OS do you use? If they didn't use *nix, I was going to keep looking.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/05, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in the order defined in your /etc/host.conf You mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? I probably do. Is /etc/host.conf still of any use? Actually, I'm not sure. I've always

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:11 -0600, Dale wrote: Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers. It's funny that you say that. One of the first things I asked my ISP when I was looking for one, what OS do you use? If

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread John Jolet
On Monday 28 November 2005 17:58, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 12:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 + Ognjen Bezanov wrote: I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont experience a slowdown when my internet connection

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 18:11 -0600, Dale wrote: My wife says that we can try SBC DSL after the new year starts (when we can afford it.) I just hope that I can get everything converted over to PPP I !think! they use windoze too. Aren't they the same as Bell

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/28/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/05, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The local resolver lib will use either /etc/hosts file or dns queries in the order defined in your /etc/host.conf You mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? I probably do. Is /etc/host.conf