[kde-freebsd] changing host's domain name results in kde slow start ?

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

On April 24, 2009 03:29:44 am Dan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I setup the machine's domain name when I first installed FreeBSD. I then
> built software for that laptop, including kde 3.5. I then changed the
> domain name. It seems that changing it yields a slower kde startup ( it
> waits some moments before starting up actually). Is there any need to apply
> changes to any kde configuration file also ? Thanks
>
> d

You might want to make sure that your new hostname is set up as an alias to 
127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts file. I believe that KDE does some DNS checks by 
default... so if your hostname isn't in DNS, and isn't in hosts, the checks 
would probably have to time out.

Cheers,
DMK