On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 02:53:19PM +0000, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Steve Clark wrote: > > > it hangs for a long time, this is when I don't have connection to the net, > > if I have connection there is just a slight pause while tries to do the DNS > > lookup. > > What makes you sure it's a DNS lookup that causes the long hang when there's > no network connection? > Just to eliminate other possibilities--are either of these authenticating against an LDAP server? -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Generally speaking, when scary things get scared, not good.