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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:50:56 +0800
From:      "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com>
To:        "Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu" <itetcu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Joel@freebsd.org, Hajimu@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Resolver not always resolving hostnames
Message-ID:  <c21e92e20610231850p368221cfx13b107cc6939b4ab@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061023022928.35b7b23c@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
References:  <20061022095811.GA10743@zaphod.nitro.dk> <ygeiriczkir.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <1161515330.751.9.camel@localhost> <200610221423.19817.andy@athame.co.uk> <453BFC2A.5010501@FreeBSD.org> <20061023022928.35b7b23c@it.buh.tecnik93.com>

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On 10/23/06, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:18:02 -0700
> Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> > Andy Fawcett wrote:
> >
> > > I'm only seeing this effect (or maybe only noticing it) with
> > > csup/cvsup. Could be coincidence though.
> >
> > Hrrm, it's odd that it affects both csup _and_ cvsup, since the
> > former is written in C, and links natively against our libraries. I'm
> > wondering if we're seeing a situation where the name servers that
> > those hostnames are delegated to are just taking a long time to
> > respond, and neither app is patient enough. I think it would be an
> > interesting experiment to see what happens if you increase the retry
> > timeout.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing this problem with other applications? Simon,
> > I'll address your problems with host(1) in a separate mail.
>
> I'm seeing it with squid.
>
>
> --
> IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
>   "Intellectual Property" is   nowhere near as valuable   as "Intellect"
>
> BOFH excuse #212:
> Of course it doesn't work, we've performed a software upgrade
>
>
>
>
I am still seeing this on a fairly recent -current

[ leafy@sh-mail ~] $ tail -f update.log
2006年10月24日 周二 09時48分51秒 CST
--------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Running /usr/bin/csup
--------------------------------------------------------------
Name lookup failure for "cvsup12.FreeBSD.org": Non-recoverable failure
in name resolution
Will retry at 09:54:17

The second try succeeds.

Jiawei Ye


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