[Solved] Problem with bad/slow/no network & FAQ

Olá everybody, I've been trying to solve an annoying problem with my Xemacs during 3 days and finally found the solution. AS a consequence, I'd like to share the solution and propose to complete the FAQ. The problem was that XEmacs was VEEEEERY slow to open when I'm on a bad Wifi network, because the network disconnects from time to time. This seems a very classical problem as the FAQ as an answer for it. It says that you just have to add a line in your /etc/hosts (FAQ question 2.5.3). Unfortunately, it didn't work for me (because the machine was not lookup on /etc/hosts before trying a dns query). Another post on the internet gave me a hint, but not a clear solution. It seemed that Xemacs attemps to resolve a name using gethostbyname() (I still don't understand why XEmacs X gui has the problem but not xemacs -nw) The hint is therefore to change the order of the look up from network to file. Using linux, it is either in /etc/host.conf (order hosts,bind) or /etc/nsswitch.conf (I think something like "passwd : files dns"). On OpenBSD (my case) in /etc/resolv.conf (add "lookup file bind" to /etc/resolv.conf.tail) Even if the solution might look very simple and trival for network-aware people, I'd like to see the FAQ question 2.5.3 could be updated with such an information to help other not-so-network-aware people not waste 3 days, like me ;) Cheers GM -- Guillaume MULLER Post-Doc - Sala C2-50 Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes (LTI) Depto. Eng. Computação e Sistemas Digitai(PCS) Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 158 travessa 3 05508-900 - São Paulo - SP - Brasil Tel: +55 11 3091 5397 http://www.lti.pcs.usp.br/~guillaume você está a razão para suas orações - Objectivo Terra - Ridan _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta