very slow start of mc (4.6.0) on FreeBSD5.1-Release

[Oliver Hoffmann]

Hi!

Yes, you were right. I made a mistake while typing the IP of the DNS. 
Sometimes it is really that easy ;)
Hope I didn't bother you too much, thanks for help and thanks a lot for my 
favorite unix-file-manager!

Cheers,

Oliver.

> Your DNS is not configured or not responding.
> mc does gethostbyname() on startup IIRC.
> Check your /etc/resolv.conf
>
> Try to do netstat -a or anything that resolves hostnames
> If it freezes - it's your DNS configuration's fault.
> mc is no exception as it uses gethostbyname().
>
> Anyway, it's for mc-users rather than mc-devel, try there ...
>
> HTH