On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jack Howarth wrote:
Can anyone tell me if the following is expected behavior for
gnome? I noticed that under Fedora Core 2 if I lose internet
connectivity (ie pull the cable) that gnome terminal windows
will not open until I put it back on the ethernet. Is there a
workaround for this problem?
Jack
ps I think I also see this problem arise if the DNS servers go
down so I think it may be more related to a failure to do DNS
lookups for the machine itself. Unfortunately since the
machine connects with dhcp, I am unable to simply hard code the
domainname into the hosts file.
There are 2 issues here.
1. If hostname changes - then 'xauth' changes - so the x-server rejects new requests 2. If hostname doesn't change - but the network/DNS goes down, some applications try to resolve local hostname - and just hang for a while.
My soultion to this problem is - set the name locally and NOT let DHCP change it.
- add a local DNS entry to this name in /etc/hosts.
So I have the follwing in /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=asterix
and in /etc/host 127.0.0.1 asterix
Not sure if this is sufficient to avoid getting a new hostname from the DHCP server.
Satish
