Re: gonme and the internet.

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

>>nameserver is down, then GNOME keeps looking for the nameserver
>>for about 30s or a minute and then gives up, and then continues
>>with the starting up process.
>>Every application I launch then also looks for the nameserver,
>>times out, and then starts up anyway.
>People often think that running a nameserver is a Big Hairy Deal, but
>if you don't need to be authoritative for any domains, it's actually
>quite an easy and, dare I say it, lightweight process to configure and
>run.
>On Debian, for instance, there's lwresd, pdnsd, djbdns, and maradns,
>as well as the heavyweight BIND.

On RedHat simply install the caching nameserver rpm and start the named 
service.  If your on a WAN it can be a pleasent performance kick anyway.

Also make you have nscd (the name service cache daemon) installed and 
running.

Put your local hostname in /etc/hosts if you have a static IP.