On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:18:41PM +0200, Christoph Goern wrote: > hi, > I just tracked the same bug down on some redhat boxes using nscd, > and redhat has no solution too. have you received any comments > on this bug? >
>From what I can tell, apparently an ethernet interface blocks in a bad way when it can't arp for the default gateway (for example if a cable modem or DSL is down). This seems to cause all of nscd's dns resolver processes to block, which eventually blocks the main nscd process, effectively stopping all name<->number resolutions including uid's and gid's. As a result, most jobs on the system eventually block. I can't think of any good solution. Obviously, nscd can give a good speedup if you have a large password file or many different processes looking up the same hostnames on a machine that doesn't run its own bind, so it would be nice if it got fixed. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
