Hi,
the last line of your email was right. A friend of mine at work suggested
that I add my host name to the /etc/hosts file. He said that KDE was
probably trying to resolve my host name, and couldn't because it couldn't
talk to the DNS server. Once I added my IP Address and the host name to
the hosts file, everything worked as fast as before.
Thanks,
Kevin
At 03:23 AM 04.13.2001, you wrote:
>Kevin Tambascio wrote:
>
> > I looked in the list of changes from 2.1 to 2.1.1, and
> > it didn't look like there was anything that would
> > solve this problem.
>
>I've found that X does strange things when it can't communicate with its
>gateway. With only one machine, I don't know that there's anything that
>you can do to get around that except for:
> route del default
>Then you should get your speed back. You'll have to add the default
>route back in once your DSL comes back up. Ahhh, but how do you know if
>your DSL comes back up if you essentially have disabled networking? Not
>a good answer. Depends on what's more important for you, speed or
>networking (when it's up).
>
>If you had another machine, you could make that other machine a
>masquerading box or a NAT box (public external to private internal,
>which is nearly the same as masquerading for only one box). This would
>allow you to set the gateway of your Linux box to the IP address of the
>masq/NAT box. You will always be able to reach your gateway (masq/NAT
>box), even if the masq/NAT box can't reach your ISP's gateway.
>
>As long as you're not hitting DNS, you should see no slowdowns in KDE.
>--
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