login delay without Internet

[Troy]

If you're just logging in, the only thing the host really needs is to  
be able to authenticate you. So if you have local authentication, a  
local home directory, and no network drives that need to be mounted,  
it should work without a network connection.

If it's a DNS issue, something has to be looking to resolve a name.  
You don't need name resolution to log in unless you authenticate to  
NIS or LDAP (or something similar), or are requesting some network  
storage. If you're checking nsswitch.conf, I would check the passwd,  
group, shadow and automount lines.


On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:52 AM, david brett wrote:

> Thanks, this was one was correct:
> #hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
> hosts:      files dns
>
> I never thought of this so i did a grep on the directory (/etc) and  
> this is the result:
> grep dns *
> jwhois.conf:    "\\.be$" = "whois.dns.be";
> jwhois.conf:    "\\.hr$" = "www.dns.hr";
> jwhois.conf:    "\\.lu$" = "whois.dns.lu";
> jwhois.conf:    "\\.pl$" = "whois.dns.pl";
> jwhois.conf:    "\\.pt$" = "whois.dns.pt";
> jwhois.conf:    "\\.com\\.uy$" = "dns.antel.net.uy";
> jwhois.conf:    "www\\.dns\\.hr" {
> jwhois.conf:    "dns\\.antel\\.net\\.uy" {
> krb5.conf: dns_lookup_realm = false
> krb5.conf: dns_lookup_kdc = false
> Binary file ld.so.cache matches
> ltrace.conf:int waddnstr(addr, string, int);
> nsswitch.conf:# dns                     Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
> nsswitch.conf:#hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
> nsswitch.conf:hosts:      files dns
> Binary file prelink.cache matches
> readahead.early.files:/lib/libnss_dns.so.2
> readahead.files:/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.1/components/necko_dns.xpt
>
>
> I left out the results from services
>
> m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>>> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:46:40 -0400
>>> From: david brett <dbrett at tcn.net>
>>> Ok, how do I stop it?  I checked to make sure bind is not running
>> Make sure that /etc/nsswitch has hosts files dns
>> and not hosts dns files
>> is a start.
>>      mark
>>> chaim.rieger at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Dns is the reason
>>>> ------Original Message------
>>>> From: david brett
>>>> Sender: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>>> ReplyTo: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>>> Sent: Jul 23, 2008 07:31
>>>> Subject: login delay without Internet
>>>>
>>>> I have noticed a behaviour of fedora core (5 or 8) not sure which  
>>>> version, which I would like to stop.  If I login on, when the  
>>>> computer has Internet access, the process happens fairly  
>>>> quickly.  If the computer does not have Internet access, the  
>>>> process takes a few minutes, considerably longer than if it does  
>>>> have Internet access.
>>>> What is going on, more importantly I do I stop this?
>>>>
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