Re: slow startup of applications in KDE/Redhat 8.0

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 08/31/03 

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:25:35 +0200

Wenjie <gokkog@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>You're not going to be able to, if I understand you right. You need
>>an external dns server to point at your ever-changing IP
>>(this is usually called a dyndns server) and you don't have one.

> I use on dyndns server indeed. Recently the dyndns server is not reachable
> however. IIRC, the dyndns is just to translate the name to my

Unfortunately, YOU are looking up your hostname from your IP address!
(I imagine).

Don't. Give yourself a fixed (FQDN) hostname, and a fixed IP address
for it, as I showed you, by adding an entry to /etc/hosts and editing
yoru sysconfig files (for the hostname).

> current IP. I don't quit the ADSL connection so my IP is not changing

Tough - it appears to have changed. If it isn't, then it's something
else in the infinite number of wrongnesses that I would guess your
networking configuration consists of. I'm sorry, I don't guess that
well without data, and I think I've done pretty well to guess THIS
well given the vague impressionism that generally dominates your posts
instead of DATA.

Try and produce data, ok?

> constantly. Then why couldn't a people even ping my IP?

Because you don't have one. This is a new datum!

Your networking is broke. Stop fixating on your boot sequence and fix
your networking.

>> There are several such services available. Why not avail yourself of
>> one? Then you'll have a real FQDN too!

> Should I do something on my host locally besides using the dyndns service?
> (configure /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network,/etc/resolv.conf on RH8.0?) I

All of the above.

> don't care about my local networking for the first step, the big issue is

Then start caring. Really!

> that my friends cannot access www.mywebsite.com.

That's a secondary issue. Rather like complaining that your doorbell
doesn't work when there is an elephant blocking the front door.

> (Your post hasn't appeared on google, sorry for the disordered

It won't appear for several hours. This is usenet. You see only what
you see.

In summary - fix your networking. If you want help with it, at least
start by describing it.

Peter

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