From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs slow away from home Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:03:12 +1000 Message-ID: <8762z0sain.fsf@rimspace.net> References: <4C73456B.9080307@smartchat.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282637910 24240 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2010 08:18:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:18:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 10:18:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnoiD-0004Mn-5F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:18:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OnoiC-0006Ol-Ef for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:18:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36589 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Onohn-0006Og-HR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Onohm-00084j-AA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Onohm-00084U-4i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Onohk-0003yf-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:18:00 +0200 Original-Received: from sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au ([203.214.67.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:18:00 +0200 Original-Received: from daniel by sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:18:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8T3qX9z7lemWNhA5JfsygDC119k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74789 Archived-At: Ron House writes: > I have been using emacs on my laptop under linux for a long time, but I have > just noticed that if I open emacs when I am away from home, it takes something > like 2 minutes or more to start up. At home it is a second or two. DNS on your laptop is broken: Emacs is trying to resolve something, probably the FQDN to an address, or the address to an FQDN, that takes that long to time-out. This would be equally true of any other service that tried the same translation, but you don't notice because little other desktop class software does perform that check. At a guess. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ daniel@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons