From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 12:58:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC4537B718 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:58:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f2SKwP999107; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:58:25 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:58:25 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: david Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 & Problems when DNS not available... Message-ID: <20010329085825.A98526@itouchnz.itouch> References: <01032802570702.27570@CR549312-A.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01032802570702.27570@CR549312-A.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com>; from d.paetz@home.com on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:57:07AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:57:07AM -0500, david wrote: [...] > So, for some reason it seems that I have some type of configuration/install > problem, as it seems for me to be able to run X or programs in X, that it > is using the DNS server for resolution. > > I confirmed this today my just unplugging the network cable and I had the > same results as previously. > > Has anyone seen this before? Could someone point me in the right direction > on how to troubleshoot or fix this? Last time I had this, I had some /etc/X0.hosts file hanging around, which I removed. Also, the problem could be related to your window-manager. Does it occur if you use something simple like `twm', with nothing else starting up except xterms? Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message