Midnight Commander slow to start

[Tino Reichardt]

* Piscium <groknok at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 March 2013 22:20, Tino Reichardt <list-mc at mcmilk.de> wrote:
> 
> > This is a dns resolution error... mc starts, when all timeouts are
> > passed ;)
> >
> > There are 3 ways for fixing that:
> > 1) you can delete your default gateway (the dns fails without timeout)
> > 2) check /etc/resolv.conf + default route (the dns fails without timeout)
> > 3) setup a correct /etc/hosts file with the name of the machine (the
> >    libc resolver resolves the name without any network related things)
> 
> Option 3) solved the problem.
> 
> > Maybe some developer of mc can fix the thing, by avoiding the
> > unnecessary dns lookup ;)
> 
> Or if DNS lookup is really necessary having a short timeout, let's
> say, 5 seconds?

The timeout is 5 seconds, but it seems, there are 4 of them... which
makes the starting of mc on such systems at least 20 seconds long :(

-- 
regards, TR