How to set up static IP in 12.04 and avoid these start-up delays?

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>     dns-nameservers 127.0.0.1 195.74.113.58 194.72.0.114

Should you refer to your own machine for name resolution before the others?
Don't think mine list 127.0.0.1 at all, but then I don't run a dns service
on them.