On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 16:39 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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 nscd running?



John.

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