Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 17:03:10 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY), hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape puzzle Message-ID: <199510232303.RAA19317@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:19:32 PDT
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: Try the old bind code. It's possible the BSDI didn't update. : : Or try the new code. It's possible they did. I know that the Linux people just produced a patch for this. However, somehow I got unsubscribed from their mailing lists and didn't realize it until just now. Basically the problem is in the bind code. There is a select that waits until it times out before assuming there has been a timeout. However, netscape has effectively an itimer that prevents the select from ever timing out, so the code winds up looping infinitely, or some such grief. I wish I had the patch, I'd send it along. Oh, they claim that if your run the name server on your machine, and the host is cached in your name server, the problem goes away. Sorry I didn't speak up sooner... Warner
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