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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: emacs-19.28.0 takes forever to run... Date: 15 May 1995 17:24:35 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3p82oj$e3a@helena.MT.net> References: <TOMEK.95May11220138@bats.comp.vuw.ac.nz> <TOMEK.95May13222551@bats.comp.vuw.ac.nz> <3p3t7v$pab@er5.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <3p3t7v$pab@er5.rutgers.edu>, Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote: >Tomasz.Piatek@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Tomek Piatek) writes: >>when the network is down emacs takes longer to start-up as it's looking for >>the nameserver. As my machine is located at home and I don't always run SLIP >>it's no wonder that it's been happening very often. I've just tried it again >>with network up and running and it took no time at all (3-5 seconds). > >I move /etc/resolv.conf to elsewhere everytime I shut down my PPP >connection, and move it back to /etc when I reconnect. It's easy >to do that if you bring the connection up and down with scripts. The easier thing to do if you are running FreeBSD is to force it to resolve hosts using /etc/hosts first, and then if it doesn't exists to use DNS. Look at the file /etc/host.conf, which should point you in the right direction. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | work #: (406) 449-7662 | Loving life in God's country, the great state of home #: (406) 443-7063 | Montana.