Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:13:57 +1100 (EST) From: Carl Makin <cmakin@nla.gov.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logon hangs. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970123120849.18550A-100000@gadget.nla.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970122170024.7369Y-100000@localhost>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: > 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. > It's trying to reverse-query you so it can record it in the utmp file. Ahhh, that would explain it. thanks! > What shell are you using? tcsh v6.05 had a bug that did a lookup each > time you ran it. 6.06 fixes it. 6.05 I think. I'll grab 6.06. hmmm, I'm running 6.06 here at work and it showed the same problem earlier this week. I did have a %m in the prompt (to display the machine name) which I've just taken out. > > 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? Sorry, I meant host.conf, not resolve.conf thanks, Carl. -- Carl Makin (VK1KCM) <http://email.nla.gov.au/~cmakin/>; C.Makin@nla..gov.au 'Work +61 6 262 1576' "Speaking for myself only!" 'If you want to make your spouse pay attention to what you say... Talk in your sleep!'
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