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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!news.zipnet.net!zip0.zipnet.net!not-for-mail From: kot@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X weirdness -- can someone clue me in? Date: 6 Oct 1996 17:53:11 -0400 Organization: ZIPNET.NET Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5399o7$ks8@zip0.zipnet.net> References: <531mt8$8ho@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zip0.zipnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] On 4 Oct 1996 00:48:40 GMT honorable Conrad Sabatier wrote (in article <531mt8$8ho@uuneo.neosoft.com>): =Anyway, what's really strange is that it finally started working again, =after I started up ppp from the shell. I know it sounds crazy, but I =thought, "Well, if it's a tcp problem, maybe firing up ppp will smooth =things out", and it did! Your X may be trying to resolve some hostnames (like it's own), and, if your /etc/host.conf is untouched, it will try the DNS server first. The server, that can not be reached, because your ppp is down. Of course, this should not happen normally -- such attempt should fail immediately if ppp is not running, but hey, there may be something else broken :) Change your /etc/host.conf so, that hosts are first looked up in /etc/hosts (which is always there), and only then the DNS server is asked (which is only available during ppp-session). Just something I'd check first... -mi