I have confirmed that Borders hotspot sets resolv.conf to use openDNS.<br>Which by the way, seems to work better than my router on my home network.<br>Maybe another example of the problems with earthlink.<br><br>That leaves the question: why access DNS at all for a application launch?<br>
My desktop doesn't do it. Its debian lenny for x86 while my laptop<br>is debian etch for amd-64<br><br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Rick Moen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Quoting Richard Harke (<a href="mailto:paleopenguin@gmail.com">paleopenguin@gmail.com</a>):<br>
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> When I use my laptop without a network connection, it becomes very,<br>
> very slow launching applications. I've done some tracing and<br>
> apparently it sends some kind of request to a DNS server. Not just any<br>
</div>> DNS but openDNS in particular. When it's off-net, it waits for the<br>
<div class="im">> time-out before continuing. So two quesions Why contact DNS for any<br>
> app launch? (This includes apps that have no possibility of using the<br>
> net)<br>
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</div>This is difficult to answer without specifics.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> 2nd. Why openDNS? I had never heard of them before and certainly<br>
> haven't signed up for their service.<br>
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</div>You'll have to answer this question from local knowledge. Obviously,<br>
somebody using your laptop at some point did something that re-pointed<br>
/etc/resolv.conf to them -- and nothing's overridden that, since.<br>
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