From: /m 

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:24:34 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>George Sherwood wrote:
>
>> Definitely DNS related since putting the IP in the hosts file made
>> everything very snappy using pan in Linux.
>
>Where is the hosts file?

/etc/hosts

>
>What line did you add to it?

IP.AD.DD.RESS   hostname


>
>BTW, you can configure to use other DNS servers. There are lots out there.

In the BSD's, the DNS servers are in

/etc/resolv.conf

Try  man resolv.conf   for info.

  /m

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