Re: general/1152: Apache DNS resolution backs up in named, eventually rendering server unusable.

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

The following reply was made to PR general/1152; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: silas@math.earlham.edu
Subject: Re: general/1152: Apache DNS resolution backs up in named, eventually         rendering server unusable.
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 16:08:27 -0600 (MDT)

 
 On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Chris Hardie wrote:
 
 > 
 > Thank you for your reply.
 > 
 > We have resinstalled named, bind, and other related services in previous
 > attempts to solve this problem with no success.
 > 
 > I realize that it would likely be a waste of your time to try to fix a
 > problem so deeply involving "foreign" software but I believe the people
 > working on it on this end have looked at many if not all of the angles and
 > come up empty handed, and so I was "hoping" it would be something in the
 > Apache code.
 > 
 > Perhaps you could just tell me where to find the source where I might
 > modify the DNS lookup timeouts?
 
 If you do a nslookup on one of the IPs that isn't being resolved,
 does it return properly?
 
 You could try adding something like:
 
         _res.retrans = 1;
         _res.retry = 1; 
 
 (you will probably need an #include <resolv.h> at the top of the
 file too) to the start of main() in http_main.c.  .retrans is the
 retransmission interval, retry is the # of times to retry.
 
 This should work if your BIND is anything near standard.
 
 I am not convinced this will help, though, since it should be
 eventually timing out anyway but it obviously isn't.