OpenOffice startup time (when network is up)

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:09 AM -0400 10/18/05, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I just discovered the reason why OO.o starts very slow on my FC4 laptop.  If
>I'm connected to the LAN and I start Writer, it takes about 25 seconds. When
>I click Writer, you'll see the loading 'progress bar' and it will stop about
>20% of the bar. It will stay there for 15 or 18 seconds and then it will
>resume until it finally loads.
>
>I then do:
>
>service network stop
>
>I do the same thing and it starts in about 3 seconds. oK, I know it's the 2nd
>time I'm doing it (it's mainly cached) but if I do:
>
>service network start
>
>and I try it again, it will take 20-25 seconds.  I tried using ethereal but I
>don't see any strange traffic. I'm trying to figure out what OO.o is trying
>to do while starting that takes so much time (when network is enabled) but so
>far nothing.
>
>Any ideas?

A failed DNS query might take that amount of time.  Say OOo wants to
connect somewhere that doesn't exist, and doesn't mind when it fails.
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