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?
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