Re: Blocking DNS lookup on MC startup

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Mon, 29 May 2006, mc rigacci org wrote:

> > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 19:03 +0200, mc rigacci org wrote:
> > > Why this annoying lookup? Is there a way to avoid it?
> >
> > If you have a slow or non-functional connection to the X server, just
> > unset DISPLAY.
> > This is FAQ, question 9.2.
>
> Thanks for your answer,
>
> but I forgot to say that FAQ 9.2 does not apply: DISPLAY is not
> set at all, X is not running on the machine and the problem
> exists both on "ssh -x" (disable X11 forwarding) and on console
> login.
>
> Anyway, why MC try to resolve on the DNS the name of network
> interfaces? When this make sense? Is this related to X?

Someone was complaining about the same issue recently. I think
he/she was experiencing this long delay on a FreeBSD system. Can
you give us more details about the system on which you run MC and
see the long delay ? The output of "mc -V" would be usefull too.

Thanks!