loading time becomes incredibly slow when I enable network

[pk_volt]

Alright, if I disable the network support (but my network module is still loaded on the kernel) everything loads up fairly quickly. Firefox loads up in like 1.7 seconds. However, once I enable network support (meaning I can go on the internet etc) it takes like 12 seconds to load up firefox, and better yet, everything loads up maybe 10 times as long!

I have a static network. a netgear router with dhcp disabled
here is how my net config file looks like

iface_eth0="192.168.0.106 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0"
gateway="eth0/192.168.0.1"

and my dns servers in my resolv.conf are
24.69.255.196
24.69.255.213

[hardcore]

What does your /etc/hosts file look like?
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[pk_volt]

bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/hosts
# /etc/hosts: This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server. Just add the names, addresses
# and any aliases to this file...
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/hosts,v 1.8 2003/08/04 20:12:25 azarah Exp $
#

127.0.0.1 gerald_0.linuxgroup localhost
# IPV6 versions of localhost and co
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

bash-2.05b$

I have other computers connected to the netgear router, but they're non-linux

[Taladar]

You should put a line in there with your internal IP and your hostname on it (in all forms that are commonly used, just hostname+fully qualified)

[hardcore]

[pk_volt]

Just wanted to reply and say that solved the problem.

care to explain why?


thanks