Try newer snapshot, the issue with su taking long time to timeout
was already fixed. You'd need newer kernel as well.

Jaromir

Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:
>     Michael>   I have been trying to figure out why "su" hangs for 30-60 seconds when I'm
>     Michael> not on a network with 1.5ALPHA_2. 
>     Michael>   I had assumed it was DNS, su looking for something to log, but after
>     Michael> mucking around with nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf a bit, I ktrace'ed it from
>     Michael> another window:
> 
>   Okay, these are DNS requests. It asks for:
> 	krb4-realm.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca
> 	krb4-realm.ottawa.on.ca
> 	krb4-realm.on.ca
> 	krb4-realm.ca.
> 
>   I can fix the first one to timeout faster by making sure that my localhost
> DNS server is found even when dhcpd has left bogus info in /etc/resolv.conf
> from a previous time when it found a network.
>   But, my local DNS server isn't authoritative for the other addresses and it 
> will have to timeout.
> 
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
@@@@  Wanna a real operating system ? Go and get NetBSD, damn!  @@@@