Thanks for your response. And sorry for the delay in replying as I was using your information to have a look in other directions.
It turns out there is a bug in the SGI O2 IRIX 6.5.2/6.5.3 with NSD (UNS name service daemon). This is fixed in the latest IRIX 6.5.4m (patch 3667). Thanks, Lachlan. > [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] > [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] > [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] > [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] > [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] > [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] > [from a developer. ] > [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ] > > > Synopsis: Child Server hangs on HostnameLookups to lame DNS Servers > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: dgaudet > State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 20 11:32:59 PDT 1999 > State-Changed-Why: > Apache uses the supplied gethostbyname(). Perhaps you updated > bind or something else in between the two builds of apache? > In any event, there's nothing apache can do if the gethostbyname() > library call does garbage. > > Dean > -- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14) for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD U.K Tel: +44-1925-603703 Fax: +44-1925-603124 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ext: 3703 Room C14 NEW CCP14 Web Domain (Under heavy construction): http://www.ccp14.ac.uk