From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 2 02:58:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA15287 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 02:58:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA15282 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 02:58:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA08443 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:45:50 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 2 Dec 96 13:45:50 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.3/8.8.3) id NAA00901; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:27:07 +0300 (MSK) Message-Id: <199612021027.NAA00901@nagual.ru> Subject: Re: cvsup can't find host - sometimes In-Reply-To: <199612012314.PAA23749@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Dec 1, 96 03:14:23 pm" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:27:07 +0300 (MSK) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) Organization: self X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/