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Re: intermittent inability to resolve hostnames using sid



On 13:02 Fri 28 Oct     , John covici wrote:
> Hi.  I am using sid and the latest bind9 and its libraries and what is
> happening is that either its so slow that many apps time out or
> something else is wrong -- when some app like sendmail tries to look
> up aname, it will time out.  Now if I look up a name and it times out
> and then look it up again, often it will work -- so something is quite
> slow with named.
> 

I recommend to take a look at the package "resolvconf". This keeps track
of currently available nameservers and supplies this information to clients
like bind. Thus "resolvconf" dynamically creates a new etc/resolv.conf
when anything in the system like dhcp-client changes domain servers.
 



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