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[The_Real_Neo]

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Registered: 2007-12-14

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] No new window when the network is down

Hi all,

My problem is quite simple: when my network connection is down, every application I try to launch take ages before the new window appear (whatever the application is: xterm, firefox, ...).

I suppose that it's due to a bad configuration of my local loop but I can't understand where is the problem. I'm behind a NAT, here is what ifconfig says:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:2E:33:1F:92 
          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: 2a01:5d8:52e7:d503:20e:2eff:fe33:1f92/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::20e:2eff:fe33:1f92/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1497227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:114370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2044338948 (1949.6 Mb)  TX bytes:11746171 (11.2 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:30454 (29.7 Kb)  TX bytes:30454 (29.7 Kb)

and route:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
default         192.168.0.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

(Note that I don't have any idea of why the 169.254.0.0/16 route is there as it's absolutely not a part of my network).
I tried to add a route for localhost using lo but nothing changes.

my hosts.allow contains all my local IP addresses (127.0.0.1, 192.168.0.2) and all the iptables policy are ACCEPT without any other rules.

Can someone explain to me why I can't use my computer when my network is down ?

Last edited by [The_Real_Neo] (2007-12-14 21:05:15)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [SOLVED] No new window when the network is down

Do you have a proper localhost entry in /etc/hosts?

Like

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost hostname_of_your_pc

[The_Real_Neo]

Member

Registered: 2007-12-14

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] No new window when the network is down

I added my hostname and it's now working. Thank you very much for your help.