<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonyg@lshift.net">tonyg@lshift.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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One workaround seems to be, for a machine named "gandalf", to add<br>
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127.0.0.1 � � � gandalf gandalf.local<br>
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... to your /etc/hosts file and restart epmd. It's a total cludge, but<br>
gets results. It *might* adversely affect other things, but so far I<br>
haven't noticed any problems.<br></blockquote><div><br>I've actually found that I got my OS X machine to respond quite sanely when I used the Sharing Preference Panel to disable the "Use dynamic global hostname" option (under Edit in the hostname section) - which tells it to ignore names provided by DHCP servers.<br>
<br>Paul.<br></div></div>