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

[Tom H]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:51 AM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
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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.

If you're running dnsmasq (or bind) locally, you definitely want to
have "127.0.0.1" first, otherwise why would you bother?