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- From: edsverk@ed4000-2.lerc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Lee Atchinson)
- Subject: Domain Name Resolution Timeout
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.190048.6687@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: edsverk@ed4000-2 (Kenneth Lee Atchinson)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ed4000-6.lerc.nasa.gov
- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:00:48 GMT
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- If this is a FAQ, please do not *flame* me
-
- I administer a few apollos and I have noticed that sometimes
- the some TCP/IP applications (telnet, ping, X Windows clients)
- will "time out" because they can not resolve the name. All of
- the Apollos run TCP/IP on ethernet and the Domain Name Server
- is a non-apollo machine (i.e. a DEC primary and a SUN secondary
- workstation). I have "worked around" this by ping'ing the
- DNS twice before doing any TCP/IP operations, which sometimes
- works and sometimes not. As stated before, this causes problems
- with any TCP/IP client and I have started ping'ing the DNS via
- cron on a 5 minute basis with "limited" results.
-
- Has anyone seen this before? Is there some "timeout" parameter
- I can control or change? Other non-apollo machines do not seem
- to have this problem with name resolution (i.e. they get it right
- ALL the time).
-
- Please post and email responses - I do not frequent this newsgroup
- and the information may prove valuable to someone else.
-
- Thanks in Advance.
- --
- Kenneth Lee Atchinson
- edsverk@lerc.nasa.gov
-