🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: demon.tech.unix
Article #441

Re: named on Solaris causing lots of dialups

#441
From: Ian Northeast
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:00
26 lines
1755 bytes
Huge wrote:
> 
> In article <38ADB614.F31A26DA@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk>, Ian Northeast <ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >James Murray wrote:
> >>
> 
> >> Brilliant!
> >> This seems to have been a 100% cure. What tosser at Sun decided to implement
> >> that silly daemon?
> >>
> >> jsm
> >
> >To be fair on them I think it would be very useful if one were using
> >NIS+ for host resolution, as a number of Solaris sites do.
> 
> Contrariwise, it works just fine on my Sol 7/SPARC 10 box, and has
> stopped the extremely irritating dialups for DNS lookups every time I
> post a news article for the first time in a couple of hours.

Have you changed the nscd configuration? I and, I assume, James have
been using the default configuration as shipped with Solaris. I didn't
know the daemon existed until I had to diagnose this problem, I suspect
James didn't either. Thus we were using the default and it caused the
problem.

Regards, Ian
Technical Details
Message-ID: <38AEE172.782E70A0@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <38ADB614.F31A26DA@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> <88khss$ogb$1@axalotl.demon.co.uk>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: fac57,4f848caf8e430bc4
X-Google-Attributes: gidfac57,public
From: Ian Northeast <ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: named on Solaris causing lots of dialups
Date: 2000/02/19
Message-ID: <38AEE172.782E70A0@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk>
X-Deja-AN: 587471150
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: house-from-hell.demon.co.uk:212.228.30.193
References: <38ADB614.F31A26DA@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> <88khss$ogb$1@axalotl.demon.co.uk>
X-Accept-Language: en
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 950985076 nnrp-07:11139 NO-IDENT house-from-hell.demon.co.uk:212.228.30.193
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: demon.tech.unix