Re: [OT?] chasen.el problem

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) writes:

> When I try to use chasen.el interface included in the Debian
> package, the call to `chasen-region' boils down to the call to
> `open-network-stream', and strace shows that Emacs is in the
> following loop:
>
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
> sendto(4, "\37\6\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\tlocalhost\5mimuw\3edu"..., 40, 0, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("148.81.13.1")}}, 16) = 40
> time(NULL)                              = 996807666
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000)  = 0
> close(4)                                = 0
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
> sendto(4, "\37\6\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\tlocalhost\5mimuw\3edu"..., 40, 0, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("148.81.12.1")}}, 16) = 40
> time(NULL)                              = 996807671
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 3000)  = 0
> close(4)                                = 0

Those look like DNS lookups.  148.81.{12,13}.1 are your nameservers,
right?  Note that emacs is trying to look up "localhost.mimuw.edu", if
I'm interpreting the strace correctly.

What does your /etc/hosts look like?