x for users slow

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:59:30 +0100
Yann Golanski <yann at kierun.org> wrote:

> Quoth Andy Sparrow on Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:50:36 -0700
> > > On Monday 01 August 2005 17:34, Eriq wrote:
> > > > after all of this, I notice that it takes a user about a
> > > > minute after 'startx' to get into X. Yes I know, but I still
> > > > like the colors :) anyway this doesn't happen when I logon as
> > > > root and start X. Blackbox is the WM hope this helps.
> > > 
> > > At a wild guess I would say your DNS is broken.
> > 
> > Umm, yup, maybe.
> 
> I can confirm that.  Add your host name into /etc/hosts with its IP
> and see if that's faster.

I found it best to use pdnsd or the like. I've found problems with
many things not being interested in checking /etc/hosts.