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From: slawa@skfgvc.elektra.ru (Svyatoslav Kiselevsky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI Stand Alone
Date: 8 Sep 1995 23:59:17 +0400
Organization: NorthCaucasian Branch of JSC "GVC Energetiky",Pyatigorsk,Russia
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Chad Kissinger (chad@onr.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm installing 2.0 in a Gateway Pentium so that I
> can work at home. (Like I don't work enough already :).
> I have succesfully loaded 2.0 using a remote CDROM and
> have configured a secondary DNS server on this machine.
> However, whenever I disconnect the Ethernet connection
> (like I'm going home), the machine "hangs" after I
> enter my Username and Password... I can only assume that
> it is having trouble finding DNS information....
> Anybody have some advice on how to configure a
> machine that will sometimes be standalone, sometimes
> dialed in on a modem and sometimes connected via an
> Ethernet card?
There is a bug in tcsh (or maybe resolver) - it try to
resolve empty string and hungs for 2-3 minutes if no root
name servers accessible.
You can test this with simple program:
main() {
gethostbyname("");
}
This program hangs on 2.0 but normally works on 1.1 for example
> TIA
--
Svyatoslav Kiselevsky, slawa@skfgvc.pyatigorsk.su, slawa@energy.msk.su
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