From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 4 19:15:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (afgate.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB5C37B416 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g353FFK40034; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:15:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:15:14 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: To: Cc: , stable at FreeBSD Subject: Re: named connections "in vain" In-Reply-To: <200204050259.g352xAx73104@drugs.dv.isc.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 Mark.Andrews@isc.org wrote: > > Named is replying to itself, not a client, ie. the host at 192.168.16.2 > > made a request to 192.168.16.2 which timed-out. > > You can have *both* the server and clients on the same box. Yes. What I really meant to say is "named is replying to a client on the same host, ie...." - I had meant to come back and amend that sentance on my original email but forgot... > > I think it has something to do with the resolver library having a short > > time-out value and named having a longer one. > > The resolver timeout is large enough that for 99.99% of queries > where there is not misconfiguration or otherwise broken server > involved in the resolution process it will complete before > the resolver gives up. Multiple broken servers can cause the > resolution process to exceed the timeouts of the resolver. So, the main reason why my mailserver spits out these log-in-vain messages all the time is because of other broken name servers? I thought so... > > Do you know if in fact there are separate time-out values for the resolver > > library and named? > > Yes they are different. Hmmm... what if you bumbed up the resolvers' time-out value? Where would one find this parameter? ps. if this is too off-topic, let me know... -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message