Slow application loading when connected to network
 

I recently had a broadband wireless network installed. I found that everytime I had the network up, loading of applications would be very slow, 10 s as against 1 s.

Found out from doing
# uname -n
that my network node name was port-123.ispprovider.com.

I then changed my host name to this and everything is now fast.

So what is going on here and was this the right thing to do?

Grateful for any replies :)

Which distro do you use?
If Mandrake, check you havent disabled the Network service. It deals with the 127.0.0.1 loopback interface. :)

rh9.0

should point out that the wireless connection is not at the pc but I am attached to it by an ordinary ethernet cable