On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Ed Skinner wrote: > The problem also manifested itself as certain X programs that took an > inordinately long time (some multiple of 2 minutes, again) to launch. > I've included the "slow" and "fast" contents below but, basically, the answer > was to add ".localdomain" to all the entries (in my local domain). I don't think the problem is in your hosts file, but in whatever place where you have chose to use ".localdomain" as part of the hostnames. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss