I didn't used to have this problem. All of the connections come from my LAN, so
they get looked up in the /etc/hosts file. Should this not be used first, before
the DNS servers? If so, is there a way to make it be first? Thanks...


            -- Levi Sluder

Bob Nestor wrote:

> Levi Sluder  (eclipse@trellis.net) wrote:
>
> >I don't think I'm running a name server. All I have in my resolv.conf is the
> >IPs of my ISPs DNS servers. Which might be whats going on, because I have to
> >go through my iMac running IPNetRouter to get to the internet. Maybe my host
> >files not settup correctly. I've not gottend to to look at that
> >documentation that someone posted on this subject yet. Maybe that will fix
> >it.
>
> Yes.  It sounds like you're doing a DNS lookup that is failing and having
> to fallback to a secondary server.  That takes a lot of time and will
> make initial connections take a long time.
>
> -bob