Re: startx does nothing

["Erik P. Skaalerud" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:29:53PM +0100, Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:
> > A good example is a sshd who lost contact with DNS. If you are lucky 
> > you'll get a login prompt after about 2 minutes. If you're not lucky, 
> > sshd just kills the connection.
>
>
> Disable client IP resolution? It doesn't belong in sshd either, used for
> some interesting stats too. For the case of OP, you should normally have
> an entry in /etc/hosts for your hostname, that avoids this entire issue.
>
> Joerg

I know that there are workarounds for this in sshd, but that wasnt 
really the point. My question is why the internal resolver uses such an 
absurd timeout on resolving.

- Erik