[mythtv-users] BE slow without internet connectivity

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 11/23/2011 06:22 PM, Alan Walls wrote:
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> I had a similar problem when my MythTV system was connected via dialup.
> It was caused by DNS lookups timing out.

I suggest setting up your own DNS server. You can use it to locally 
cache lookups, but also to manage the IP addresses and hostnames on your 
local network. No need to manage hosts tables on all your machines, just 
do it in one place. And reverse lookups can be honoured as well.