From: Ian Northeast on
On Wed, 07 May 2008 18:52:39 +0100, Martin Liddle wrote:

> In message <s3e*DFhcs(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Peter Benie
> <peterb(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes
>>Could this be negative caching by 'nscd'? Kill it and see if your
>>problems go away.
>>
> Nice idea but nscd isn't running on this Fedora 8 system (although it is
> installed). Is there anything else that could be doing something similar?

Does /etc/resolv.conf get rewritten as the connection goes up and down?

A process only reads it once, the first time gethostbyname() etc. is
called.

What does gethostbyname() fail with when it shouldn't be failing - what is
h_errno set to?

Regards, Ian

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