Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:27:07 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvsup can't find host - sometimes Message-ID: <199612021027.NAA00901@nagual.ru> In-Reply-To: <199612012314.PAA23749@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Dec 1, 96 03:14:23 pm"
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> I wasn't aware of this problem. CVSup just calls gethostbyname() to do > lookup, so it's no different from other applications in this regard. > But I've seen these kinds of bogus "unknown host" errors on quite a few > applications, even on a 56 K link. It may be gethostbyname() that's not > trying hard enough. > > Anyway, I will try to fix it in CVSup, by making it retry a few times > before giving up. I don't think it is gethostbyname() fail, because everything else find it immediately because whole *.freebsd.org cached by my named as secondary. Maybe modula soemhow resets intial network search sleep (cause it immediately expired?) -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
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