On Wed, 09.01.08 17:36, G.Wolfe Woodbury (ggw(a)wolves.durham.nc.us) wrote:
>> What happens in practice, though, is that things that expect
network
>> services to be running will do DNS lookups, hanging for minutes at at
>> time when there is no response.
>
> Looks like a good way to identify bugs to me... the DNS hang needs
> fixed, not worked around.
One major help would be for Fedora to _not_ mangle the localhost line in
/etc/hosts. This has casued me several headaches until I learned to
remove the local realname from the default localhost line.
Sure, its not technically incorrect, but its not nice when you've got
static addresses on a LAN.
Although this is totally off-topic: I still think the proper fix is
something like this:
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-myhostname/
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-myhostname/README.txt
I wrote that a while back. Maybe someone wants to dust this off and
get it into Fedora and activated by default?
This saved me a couple of times on embedded boxes, where each of the
devices used a different hostname and I had to guarantee that the
hostname stayed resolvable in all cases, with a ro root directory.
Lennart
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