On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:35:15AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings: > > After upgrading some X-window packages last night I cannot start X without > waiting for the modem to dial out and connect. It seems to be doing a name > lookup since, if I get back out of X and hang up the modem and then do a > startx immediately, there is no dial-out since the name lookup is still > cached. A few hours later, though, the problem is back. The packages that > updated last night were mostly fonts, but xbase-clients updated also. > > I am running slink, and my X packages come fronm: > > deb http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ xfree86-334-slink/ > > Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to stop it?
If it is really a DNS lookup then the easiest way would be to put some more information to your /etc/hosts. You have to think out yourself which host could it be looking up :) hope this helps Marcin -- -------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------
