Resolver not always resolving hostnames

[Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:18:02 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Andy Fawcett wrote:
> 
> > I'm only seeing this effect (or maybe only noticing it) with
> > csup/cvsup. Could be coincidence though.
> 
> Hrrm, it's odd that it affects both csup _and_ cvsup, since the
> former is written in C, and links natively against our libraries. I'm 
> wondering if we're seeing a situation where the name servers that 
> those hostnames are delegated to are just taking a long time to 
> respond, and neither app is patient enough. I think it would be an 
> interesting experiment to see what happens if you increase the retry 
> timeout.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this problem with other applications? Simon, 
> I'll address your problems with host(1) in a separate mail.

I'm seeing it with squid.


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