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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Carl Makin wrote:

> 
> I'm having a problem with logons, su's and xterm invocations hanging when
> the nameserver goes away or loses it's internet link.
> 
> I have a home network where a FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 box running Darren Reed's
> IPFilter package is acting as a gateway to the Internet for a bunch of
> other machines. I run named on this gateway with different configurations
> for the different ISPs I use, all invoked by a dial script. 
> 
> My main FreeBSD box sits behind this gateway and points resolv.conf to it.
> When the modem drops out or the gateway box is not powered on my main
> FreeBSD box hangs for a while when logging in, invoking an xterm, or using
> su.  It's obviously a nameserver timout problem but I'm buggered if I can
> work out why the damn thing is querying the nameserver in the first place.

It's trying to reverse-query you so it can record it in the utmp file.

What shell are you using?  tcsh v6.05 had a bug that did a lookup each
time you ran it.  6.06 fixes it.

> I changed the order in resolve.conf to hosts then bind and made sure ALL
> hosts I use are in the hosts file but still no joy.  

What about /etc/host.conf?  did you rewire it to search /etc/hosts first?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major