Init : someone could comment this ?
G.Wolfe Woodbury
ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us
Wed Jan 9 22:36:43 UTC 2008
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Andrew Farris wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> What happens in practice, though, is that things that expect network
>> services to be running will do DNS lookups, hanging for minutes at at
>> time when there is no response.
>
> Looks like a good way to identify bugs to me... the DNS hang needs
> fixed, not worked around.
One major help would be for Fedora to _not_ mangle the localhost line in
/etc/hosts. This has casued me several headaches until I learned to
remove the local realname from the default localhost line.
Sure, its not technically incorrect, but its not nice when you've got
static addresses on a LAN.
- --
Wolfe
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