On 5/11/07, Lorenzo <lorenzo at gmk.it> wrote: > I agree with John: the communications between the server and the client > under X are trying to resolve the hostname which fails and they have to > wait for the DNS query timeout. I'm willing to believe that (and will edit /etc/hosts as soon as I next boot the laptop) but why would DNS have an effect on speed of access to USB disk drives? It takes extra time to mount them even from a text console when the machine is in this condition.