I've encountered a similar problem in my Mandrake 7.2 installation - if the
computer can't reach the DNS assigned to it, some applications behave like
you mentioned.
Midnight Commander stuff, and I guess that most GTK application attempt to
resolve their hostname by quering the DNS using gethostbyname() which
apperntly doesn't read /etc/hosts (don't know if this is correct or not).
since it can't reach the name server, it timesout on the connection, but
tries several times in a row before starting. my solution was to set the
name server to the localhost (127.0.0.1) and run a local named set only to
map the local network and the 127.0.0 region (must set it up to have reverse
maps - otherwise it's for vain). I had load of trouble trying to get it to
behave, but now it does - unfortunatly, everytime I connect to the internet
it rewrites the /etc/resolve.conf to the ISP's name server and I don't know
how to prevent if from doing so (looked in all the network scripts, but to
no avail).
Oded
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Yoav Bornstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 13:38
Subject: GTK and apache problems ...
> 1. When I'm tring to run GTK app (like xchat or gnapster) it seems to
freeze,
> but after 4 mins it runs.
> why ?
> 2. I have apache 1.3. I can't access to the server with http://localhost
or
> 127.0.0.1 .
>
> Thanks
>
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