On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:03:44PM +0200, Linus Gasser wrote: | Look whether your /etc/hosts has an entry for localhost and for the name of | your laptop... Incidentally, shouldn't this be something that is fixed somewhere in glibc so that localhost and the machine's hostname always resolve to something sane (127.0.0.1, for example) without involving whatever it is that slows things down (network traffic?)? Cameron.