Re: w hangs before loading
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Vivek Prasannan wrote: When I type the command 'w' it holds for a while before printing the output. There is no firewall in the system, load average is below 0.8 and I suspect it is something else. Any thoughts on this. The 'w' command attempts to look up the hostnames for any users which are remotely logged in. If you encounter a significant delay, that suggests that reverse DNS (aka PTR record lookups) is not properly configured or is performing slowly in your situation. Chris Slothouber wrote: Check to make sure your /etc/resolv.conf is configured correctly. It sounds like it could be taking a while to resolve the remote addresses connected. A good way to verify that this is the problem is to run w -n, which won't do DNS lookups. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: w hangs before loading
Check to make sure your /etc/resolv.conf is configured correctly. It sounds like it could be taking a while to resolve the remote addresses connected. Vivek Prasannan wrote: Hi, When I type the command 'w' it holds for a while before printing the output. There is no firewall in the system, load average is below 0.8 and I suspect it is something else. Any thoughts on this. -Vivek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: w hangs before loading
On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Vivek Prasannan wrote: [ ...cross-posting between freebsd-questions and other FreeBSD lists is generally not encouraged; Reply-To: set... ] When I type the command 'w' it holds for a while before printing the output. There is no firewall in the system, load average is below 0.8 and I suspect it is something else. Any thoughts on this. The 'w' command attempts to look up the hostnames for any users which are remotely logged in. If you encounter a significant delay, that suggests that reverse DNS (aka PTR record lookups) is not properly configured or is performing slowly in your situation. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
