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.