From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 17:14:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16078 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from gadget.nla.gov.au (cmakin@gadget.nla.gov.au [203.4.201.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16072 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:14:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cmakin@localhost) by gadget.nla.gov.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA18573; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:13:58 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: gadget.nla.gov.au: cmakin owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:13:57 +1100 (EST) From: Carl Makin To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logon hangs. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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) 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!'