Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

["John C. Plummer" <jcp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 24 June 2005 17:35, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Friday 24 June 2005 23:17, John C. Plummer wrote:
> > 	Could I ask what exactly goes in /etc/hosts for the ISP's DNS?  Thanks.
> > jcp
>
> Nothing. the hosts file is used *instead of* DNS, it's not where you set
> your name server IP. Don't touch it. Your ISP's name servers should go
> in /etc/resolv.conf each on a separate line with the word 'nameserver' in
> front, like
>
> nameserver 1.2.3.4
> nameserver 5.6.7.8
>
> Nothing else is needed.
>
> It is very unusual that you ever have to touch /etc/hosts. It's mostly used
> to define the name/IP for 'localhost', that's about it these days
Anders,
	Thanks for the input.  Any thoughts on what could be causing excessive
browser response times, about 3 times as long as IE in XP under vmware and
15 times longer than the same machine when rebooted into XP with the
same fixed IP settings?
jcp