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From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] emacs can't startup when network down.
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    Emacs tries to determine the hostname of the machine on which it runs.
    So if your DNS setup specifies a server that's not reachable, you'll get
    such timeouts,

I wonder if there is anything Emacs can do to avoid hanging
in such cases.  Perhaps to make it time out.