From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 20:06:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D92A16A4CE; Mon, 10 May 2004 20:06:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ioskeha.hittite.isp.9tel.net (ioskeha.hittite.isp.9tel.net [62.62.156.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B8F43D46; Mon, 10 May 2004 20:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clefevre-lists@9online.fr) Received: from pc2k (unknown [81.185.52.50]) by ioskeha.hittite.isp.9tel.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 292CA17B4ED; Tue, 11 May 2004 05:07:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <0cc701c43704$fe189fc0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> From: "Cyrille Lefevre" To: "current @FreeBSD.org" Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 05:06:44 +0200 Organization: ACME MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 cc: "net @FreeBSD.org" Subject: bind timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 03:06:48 -0000 Hi, for some times, I have some troubles to send e-mails, they are returned w/ a host unknown error message (the relay)... I spent a whole day to track down the problem w/o success. however, it seems to be located around bind, but I don't know if it's the client side or the server side which is broken, maybe the TCP stack ! I'm running -current last updated around 18 April 2004. # uname -a FreeBSD gits 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #26: Tue Apr 27 03:51:12 CEST 2004 # nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. 0 Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 VERSION.BIND text = "8.3.7-REL" here are some outputs of the host command : # time host smarthost smarthost.gits.fr.invalid has address 62.62.156.27 smarthost.gits.fr.invalid has address 62.62.156.28 0.05s real 0.00s user 0.04s system # time host smarthost smarthost.gits.fr.invalid has address 62.62.156.28 smarthost.gits.fr.invalid has address 62.62.156.27 5.08s real 0.00s user 0.03s system # time host smarthost 5.08s real 0.00s user 0.04s system # time host smarthost 8.14s real 0.00s user 0.04s system so, sometimes, I got a rapid answer, sometimes a slow answer and sometimes no answer ! here are some other outputs regarding localhost : # time host localhost localhost.gits.fr.invalid has address 127.0.0.1 0.06s real 0.00s user 0.03s system # time host localhost localhost.gits.fr.invalid has address 127.0.0.1 5.19s real 0.01s user 0.03s system # time host localhost localhost.gits.fr.invalid has address 127.0.0.1 10.14s real 0.01s user 0.01s system # time host localhost Host not found. 30.38s real 0.00s user 0.04s system any hints ? Cyrille Lefevre. -- home: mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net