> OK, further to my previous post, it seems to be something to do
> with gethostbyname()? In previous kernel versions, this function
> did not require named to be running, and quickly returned a
> "don't know" type of response. Now, it seems much slower.
John,
Try 2.1.127-pre2 and see if the problem occurs. Something is hosed here
with knfsd under pre3 that works fine with pre2. It's been suggested that
gethostbyname() was to blame for that as well.
Steve
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> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:15:09 +0000 (GMT)
>
> Anyone having problems with this combination? (Sendmail is compiled
> against glibc on this i586). 2.1.126 works just fine, 2.1.127-pre3
> slows right down... takes about 20 seconds to start, and doesn't
> respond to incoming connects for a very long time.
>
> Seems to be waiting on a call to select(5, ...) I'd do some more
> tracing but am forced to use Windoze only for the next six weeks.
> Not happy.
>
> Back to 2.1.126 for now.
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