Re: Gnome's dependence on networking...

[Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org>]

I put an additional entry into /etc/hosts for a hostname that I get when
I use DHCP. I didn't really want to use the other two options because
this is a laptop and I'd like to keep it as lightweight as possible. 

Thanks,
Ken

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 12:23 -0800, Bryan J.Smith wrote:
> GNOME depends on name resolution.
> It's a major disadvantage of GNOME's network-centric model.
> 
> You have a couple of options to localize resolution regardless of 
> connectivity:
> 1)  Put static entries in /etc/hosts
> 2)  Run name services cache daemon (nscd)
> 3)  Run a caching-only DNS server
> 
> I like #2 because it addresses NIS or LDAP provided names as well.
> Of course, only #1 will address start-up time issues.
> 
> BTW, in your other post, it sounds like you are booting DHCP, but your 
> leases don't expire for a week or so.
> Check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
> 
> 
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