Well, it didn't cause a system crash on 10.2, just crashed Analog
(core dump).

IIRC DNS uses port 53.

-- 

Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group


Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:29 PM):

> Thank you very much for your quick answer.
> Thankfully I didnt have any system crash on 10.3.1.
> Its only killing my bandwidth and its not too bad considering that I 
> don't use Analog 24 hours a day ;-)
> But do you know what port is used for DNS lookups ? I dont have too 
> much knowledge on the TCP subject.
> Cheers
> Guillaume


>>> Hello
>>> I am using Analog 5.32 on OS X 10.3.1
>>> I was wondering if somebody could tell me why I cant access any
>>> internet based network while analog is doing DNS lookups.
>>> Does it use a specific port for that ?
>>> Any suggestion is welcomed.
>>
>> This sounds like there might be a problem in your system's TCP stack.
>> On OS X 10.0 through 10.2 the DNS Lookup functions are broken and can
>> cause system crashes when Analog tries to use them. Apparently this is
>> not entirely fixed in 10.3.
>>
>> As this is an operating system problem, the advice (for previous
>> versions) has been to not do DNS lookups on an OS X server. I realize
>> this is not ideal, but the problem is a core issue in the operating
>> system and not something that Analog can deal with. You can always try
>> using one of the other third part DNS tools
>> (http://analog.cx/docs/helpers/#dns), but YMMV.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Jeremy Wadsack
>> Wadsack-Allen Digital Group

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