Very, glad I could help though :)

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Tom Lloyd <tomll...@wallcolmonoy.co.uk> wrote:
> nsswitch seems to be OK, but it wasn't aliased to localhost for ipv6.  I've 
> fixed that now (and knocked back the ipv6 precedence in /etc/gai.conf) and it 
> seems to be behaving...
>
> Still doesn't explain to me why it was looking itself up in the first 
> place...  Weird :/
>
> -- Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: charlesmor...@gmail.com [mailto:charlesmor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of 
> Charles Morris
> Sent: 24 May 2012 17:40
> To: Tom Lloyd
> Cc: Matijn Woudt; php-db@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Mysterious 5 second delay on sybase_connect()
>
> Is it's own host name in the hosts file and nsswitch.conf set up correctly?
>
> Alternatively disable all the ipv6 adapters if you aren't using them.
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Tom Lloyd <tomll...@wallcolmonoy.co.uk> 
> wrote:
>> Say the webserver is called foo, on the domain company.local.  No ipv6 is 
>> enabled in the network.  A network trace tells me that when the HTTP request 
>> comes in, the webserver sends out a DNS request for "AAAA 
>> foo.company.local".  Nothing replies, and after 5 seconds it times out and 
>> carries on doing what it was doing.
>>
>> Why would it be doing a DNS lookup for the IPv6 address of its own hostname? 
>>  And more urgently, how can I stop it?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Lloyd
>> Sent: 24 May 2012 16:26
>> To: 'Matijn Woudt'
>> Cc: php-db@lists.php.net
>> Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Mysterious 5 second delay on sybase_connect()
>>
>> I'm getting increasingly suspicious that DNS is to blame.  If I was to do 
>> something like:
>>
>> $conn = sybase_connect( "10.0.0.11\SQLMAIN", $user, $pass )
>>
>> Would that trigger a lookup of some variety?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matijn Woudt [mailto:tijn...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: 24 May 2012 13:00
>> To: Tom Lloyd
>> Cc: php-db@lists.php.net
>> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Mysterious 5 second delay on sybase_connect()
>>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Tom Lloyd <tomll...@wallcolmonoy.co.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi there.  I'm working on a PHP-driven project on Debian Squeeze that
>>> connects to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server 2008.
>>> I'm using the sybase extensions to PHP.
>>>
>>> Since I rebooted the webserver on the weekend, both the
>>> sybase_connect() and sybase_pconnect() commands will sometimes take
>>> exactly 5 seconds to execute.  It seems to be random whether they do
>>> this or not.  I can't think of anything that could have been changed
>>> by the reboot, unless a package was updated but its associated process 
>>> never got restarted...
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what might cause this behaviour?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tom Lloyd
>>>
>>
>> It most likely has nothing to do with PHP, but is rather a routing issue. 5 
>> seconds is the default connection time out for TCP/IP, so it probably makes 
>> sense that the connection is failing at a lower level.
>>
>> - Matijn

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