Re: Blocking DNS lookup on MC startup

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> Yes. I understood that the first time through. There was a similiar bug
> report already.
>
> > The question is: why MC is doing DNS queries? Is possible to
> > disable them?
>
> Maybe someone else is doing those queries. A library linked to MC most 
> likely. I've tried to reproduce that many times and I cannot get neither
> the slowdown nor those particualr dns lookups for interface names. I
> disconnect the network cable and still I am not able to get the described
> behaviour.

Ok, I was able to reproduce it - it seems that the slowdown happens only
if MC has smbfs support. I'll investigate.