So if DNSTIMEOUT doesn't work Windows (Win98), what do we use instead, how
do we make the system wait longer while it looks up the DNS addresses during
an Analog run?

Arthur McBryan

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[mailto:owner-analog-help@;lists.isite.net]On Behalf Of Stephen Turner
Sent: 17 October 2002 15:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [analog-help] DNS resolution fails on IRIX6.5


On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Manuel González Castro wrote:
>
> but I get 91% of unresolved numerical addresses with Analog 5.24 on SGI
IRIX 6.5.17m.
>
> Tips:
>
> 1) nslookup (in the same machine) can resolve much more addresses than
analog
> 2) Analog 5.24 running on Windows 2K (same analog.cfg, log file, DNS cache
file, 1st and 2nd DNS name servers, LAN settings) can resolve much more
addresses than analog 5.24 on IRIX (only 30% unresolved).
> 3) The DNS resolving process on IRIX is faster (3x) than on Windows 2K,
but both machines have similar SPEC rates.
>

Try setting the DNSTIMEOUT higher. (Windows doesn't have DNSTIMEOUT, so that
would potentially explain all three of your observations).

--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK
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