Re: Emacs slow away from home

[David Kastrup]

Ron House <rhouse@smartchat.net.au> writes:

> On 24/08/10 18:03, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Ron House<rhouse@smartchat.net.au>  writes:
>>
>>> I have been using emacs on my laptop under linux for a long time, but I have
>>> just noticed that if I open emacs when I am away from home, it takes 
>>> something
>>> like 2 minutes or more to start up.  At home it is a second or two.
>>
>> DNS on your laptop is broken: Emacs is trying to resolve something, probably
>> the FQDN to an address, or the address to an FQDN, that takes that long to
>> time-out.
>
> Thanks Daniel, I know stuff will break when I go outside the limits of
> the LAN, but as I said, all I use emacs for is to edit files. My
> problem is, how do I turn off whatever it is trying to do (since I
> won't be needing the results of its doings anyway)?

It needs a unique system name to do proper file locking when editing
possibly networked files, and to be able to reliably work with
emacsclient.  That's well within the "all I use emacs for is to edit
files" department.

-- 
David Kastrup