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 n

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 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

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

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

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

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

2005-11-28 Thread Shawn Singh
I've experienced a few outages (mainly due to inclement weather), but not seen my Gentoo system slow down at all; however, I have seen my Fedora Core 4 and Mandrake 9.2 boxes slow down when their connection to the Internet is lost, but that is normally due to some service / app that relies on Inter

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? + 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

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 di

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 gets