Why does Emacs ask me to connect to my dialup service when it starts up?
For some users, when Emacs starts up it pops up the dialog for connecting to their dialup service, or sometimes appears to hang for a few minutes and suddenly appear. The reason for this is that Emacs now has networking support built in. When Emacs starts, the winsock DLL automatically gets loaded and tries to resolve the fully qualified domain name for your machine under the name “localhost”. If the system doesn’t have this name mapped, it will try to query a nameserver on the internet, which is typically some host within your ISP and subsequently prompts to connect to your dialup service so that it can ask a name server for the domain name of your machine. As you know, this is very unfortunate, and was not anticipated when the networking support was added. This problem will be fixed when 19.32 comes out, but you can work around the problem by giving the dialup support another method for figuring out the domain name of your machine. To do this, you need to edit the hosts file for your
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