Timofei Shatrov grue@mail.ru writes:
I found a fix for a bug that plagued me for a long time. Whenever I was connected to Internet, Slime was consistently hanging Emacs cold. The bug apparently stems from make-network-process function of Emacs which demonstrates the same behavior. Anyway, there is a fix: replace all occurences of "127.0.0.1" in slime.el with "localhost" - surprisingly this solves the problem.
Can't win sometimes :-)
2004-06-30 Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com
* slime.el (slime-read-port-and-connect-to-running-swank) (slime-connect, slime-open-stream-to-lisp): Replace "localhost" with "127.0.0.1". This is believed to avoid unwanted DNS lookups on certain operating systems. The lookups can become crippling if the DNS server isn't available.
Which operating system are you using? Does e.g. 'telnet 127.0.0.1' also have the same problem?