Quoting Dag Wieers <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Barry Brimer wrote: > > >> When you resolve a hostname on RHEL5 (RHEL4 is affected too) that is in > >> /etc/hosts, libresolv performs a DNS lookup. If your DNS is unavailable > >> for whatever reason, it takes a long timeout for DNS before it returns the > >> answer from /etc/hosts... > > > > <snip> > > > > I don't know if this is related or not .. but what are the contents of > > /etc/host.conf ?? > > Same as default. We looked at that too. > > order hosts,bind > > All systems I have tested it on seem to be affected. So I think I am > missing something obvious to others.
Do you have anything interesting in /etc/resolv.conf ?? There are some interesting options available in "man resolv.conf" .. most notably debug and timeout options. I am wondering if there were any semi-recent changes in the defaults of any of this software. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
