From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 7 8:42: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB14E37B422 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ve3wwg@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.141.193.224]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010407154156.PZZ3428.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@home.com> for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:41:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3ACF3544.6B3D486@home.com> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 11:41:56 -0400 From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Resolver problems with 4.3-RC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Earlier I reported hangs WRT xterm/rlogin and I now have that mystery solved. It seems that since 4.2-RELEASE the resolver behavior has changed for certain system components. I run a name server on this particular host. The first clue was that when I did a netstat -a, it hung on certain interface addresses. The nslookup and dig commands all resolve these addresses just fine, however. THE PROBLEM IS THAT netstat and login/rlogin insist that these reverse lookups occur in the /etc/hosts file. Once I register all the addresses there, the 2-minute hangs go away. Under the 4.2-RELEASE, these were resolving from my nameserver just fine. Is there a configuration change that I am unaware of? It sure is a pain to maintain host numbers in both the name server and the /etc/hosts file. Thanks, Warren. Addendums: I run a primary name server on my host. The /etc/resolv.conf thus looks like this: domain mydomain.org nameserver 127.0.0.1 My /etc/host.conf is: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis Commenting out the hosts line did not seem to help. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message