I have a simple resolv.conf that queries two DNS servers (Win2003) for
name resolution.

The problem is when a client does a login and either their host isn't in
DNS or possibly the DNS servers are down, there is a very long delay
(about 20+ seconds) before falling back.

It looks like AIX is trying to resolve the client name on login for wtmp
and I need to shorten the timeout on this.

Anyway to do this?

Thanks,
-Scott

On 2005-08-14, ScottZz <noemail@no.spam.net> wrote:

> DNS or possibly the DNS servers are down, there is a very long delay
> (about 20+ seconds) before falling back.

See the book "Communications Programming Concepts", chapter "Sockets",
section "Domain Name Resolution". Read about RES_TIMEOUT and RES_RETRY
and be happy. :-)

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Jurjen Oskam