On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:34 -0700, Jim Carter wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:51 -0700, Jim Carter wrote:
> > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Ian Kent wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 22:06 -0700, Jim Carter wrote:
> > > > > Today I upgraded one of my three DNS servers, the first listed in
> > > > > /etc/resolv.conf, and until I got it back on the air, autofs mounting
> > > > > was glacial...
> --snip--
> > 
> > Try this patch and let me know what happens.
> > Not sure it will actually make much difference.
> > I've made it against the autofs in opensuse, revision 30.2.
> 
> Patch and build were clean.  I installed it on a machine running 
> autofs-5.0.2-30.2 and it worked.  To test, I prepended to /etc/resolv.conf 
> a nameserver (IP address) which was known to not exist, and then 
> automounted something.  This took 10.093 secs elapsed, corresponding to one 
> timeout (default length 5 secs) when autofs resolves the hostname, and a 
> second timeout when mount resolves the name.  This is the best that can be 
> done.  

OK, I can't think of any possible side effects from this so I'll merge
it.

Thanks
Ian

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