On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Alan Wilson wrote:
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> I did as Manuel suggested and compiled the kernel without IP6 but i'm
> stll having the same problems. Symptoms are if i connect to a host
> external to my network by hostname i.e. telnet host.netbsd.org there is
> a delay of at least 60 seconds before a connection is established.
>
> However if i telnet to an IP address i.e. 100.150.200.232 the connection
> is immediate.
>
> This would suggest some sort of name resolution problem but nslookup on
> a hostname returns an IP instantly. My nsswitch.conf entry for hosts is:
> files dns
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I've seen this kind of problem when reverse lookup with the dns. I would
suggest that you change the order in nsswitch.conf to DNS FILES instead,
and see if it makes any change. You might also want to configure a caching
DNS server on your local network.

--
cheers,

/Anders

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