strange gethostsbyname error...

[fjramsay1234 at hotmail.com (Frank Ramsay)]

the hosts line reads
hosts:  file nisplus dns

I'm putting some code it in check h_error but this problem occures ovenight 
so it's hard to test since they need the server running durring the day.

-fjr


>From: David Kramer <david at thekramers.net>
>To: discuss at blu.org
>Subject: Re: strange gethostsbyname error...
>Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:42:53 -0400 (EDT)
>
>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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