resolver issues in FreeBSD-5.2.1

Bin Ren br260 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Mar 22 09:17:33 PST 2004


Hi Jesse:

You may need to add a line:

127.0.0.1     your_laptop_host_name

to /etc/hosts

Hope this helps,
Bin

On 22 Mar 2004, at 05:57, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Howdy list,
>
> I'm seeing some delays while trying to use just
> /etc/hosts without an actual name server under
> 5.2.1-RELEASE.
>
> Specifically, I run a test Qmail server on my laptop,
> and it's pausing for 5 or 6 seconds trying to resolve
> my laptop's host name for incoming local connections.
>
> DHCP is off, fresh reboot, all interfaces down except
> loopback...
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior? Any ideas to fix it?
>
> -- 
> Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
> WingNET Internet Services,
> P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605
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> http://www.wingnet.net
>
>
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