Ok, I've worked around the problem. It seems that everytime I launch a KDE application it needs to resolve mycomputername address. Why this? I don't know. However it was enough to add the following line to the file /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 mycomputername So everytime it needs to resolve the computer name it no longer ask this to the dns server. I think, however, that this is a really nasty bug. How could a newbie installing the Mandrake for the first time manage a problem like this? Shouldn't someo...
I had the same problem with my laptop. I have a Mandrake 9.1 installed. My problem is that everytime I launch an application under KDE it takes a lot of time to spawn just doing nothing. If I unplug the ethernet cable it's hell. Every application needs over 10 seconds to be displaied. This is really unbearable. It looks like all my applications need to comunicate with the dns server everytime they start up. I tried to catch the packets and I found two connections: the first one to the dns server...
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