Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:49:19 +1200 From: Mike Muir <mmuir@es.co.nz> To: Tomer Weller <spud@i.am> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird X problem Message-ID: <37BCEC5F.7D7EF0BD@es.co.nz> References: <99082000075900.50541@Tomer.Home.Org>
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Tomer Weller wrote: > > very weird X problem, I can only load an X server if I have a ppp connection > upi and running... > > Xfree86 3.4, -CURRENT(made world today) You might want to check your resolv.conf, having an ip that you cant access in there could be causing some things to load extremely slowly as they have to wait for a query to timeout or something - running ppp obviously lets you access your ISP's name server providing you have resolv.conf setup for that ip - you could always run your own caching only name server for that and chuck the boxes own ip into resolv.conf. Mebe upgrading /etc to be inline with -CURRENT you overwrote a few name resolution related files.. mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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