Re: intermittent inability to resolve hostnames using sid

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

But resolv.conf is not the probblem -- if I take 127.0.0.1 out of the
resolv.conf that works, but any machine on my network relying on my
name server still has the problem.  I really need to figure out what
is goingwrong or very slowwith the nameserver i.e. bind9.

on Friday 10/28/2005 mikepolniak(mikpolniak@adelphia.net) wrote
 > 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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