Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:56:03 -0700 From: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why does Xfce 4.2 have to query a DNS ? Message-ID: <8cb27cbf050314115632893e85@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050314183452.GA13267@nowhere> References: <8cb27cbf05031211126ca5f67d@mail.gmail.com> <20050314183452.GA13267@nowhere>
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:34:53 -0600, Craig Boston <craig@yekse.gank.org> wrote:
> I don't know why xfce does this, but it's not the first time I've seen a
> similar problem. ISTR an old GNOME pager applet that would send out
> lots of DNS queries when mousing over it...
>
Yeah, I had tha problem too. Gnome is a wonderful desktop (I like Kde
too) but those sorts of problems were very frustrating to deal with.
> As a workaround, you may want to consider adding an entry to your
> /etc/hosts file for the local machine. If your IP changes often (as it
> probably would on a modem connection), just put an entry for 127.0.0.1
I have this:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.silbsd.org notebook2.silbsd.org notebook2
and I can ping that by doing either $ ping notebook2 or
$ ping $(hostname)
Thanks for the help though:)
Kind regards,
Jon
> with your hostname. That should prevent xfce or anything else from
> trying to contact an external DNS server when resolving the local
> hostname.
>
> I've only run into one piece of software that has problems with doing
> that -- Kerberos 5 seems to have trouble getting tickets for rlogin when
> the hostname doesn't resolve to its real (network) IP. Haven't had a
> problem with anything else.
>
> HTH,
> Craig
>
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