strange gethostsbyname error...

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Frank Ramsay wrote:

> 
> 
> I'm down at a client site doing some troubleshooting and I've come across a 
> very strange gethostbyname error.  It's returning NULL on a hostname in the 
> /etc/hosts file.  What happens is when the remote server goes down the 
> client program tries to re-connect every few hundred times though it's main 
> loop.  The idea being it will re-connect when server comes back up.  When it 
> first comes up it works, but after an hour or two gethostbyname starts to 
> fail.  Has anyone seen anything like this before?
> redhat 7.2
> glibc-2.2.4-19

Make sure you're looking at hosts before anything else in 
/etc/nsswitch.conf.


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