Re: Strange behavior when launching apps

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 12:27:33AM -0400, Tim wrote:
> GNOME accesses the Internet (ppp0) whenever I start a program.  Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but it can be a huge problem when downloading a large file, as the program won't start until GNOME has finished with whatever it's connecting to.  I assume that this is probably by design, GNOME is doing a DNS lookup on the hostname perhaps?  Well, I'd appreciate knowing what is going on, and if there's something I can do to prevent this.  I have a dynamic IP so it's more complicated then just adding my hostname to /etc/hosts, but I could always put a script in ip-up to add it, or run a caching nameserver, if it is a DNS lookup that is happening.
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No, it's not more complicated than just adding a hostname to /etc/hosts.
Just choose one hostname for your machine (say localhost) and put a line

127.0.0.1	localhost

in your /etc/hosts.

Ronald