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

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 06:51:25AM -0600, compdoc wrote:
> >     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. 
> 
I'm using dnsmasq and that's the way it says to configure it, certainly
used to work OK in 10.04.

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Chris Green