On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 13:56 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I have a weird problem. > > 526 > hostname > saturn.syslang.net > 527 > > > But, ... > > 527> perl -MNet::Domain -e 'print Net::Domain::hostfqdn(), "\n"' > saturn.com > > And it takes almost 30 seconds to come back. With a correct answer, or an error? (I'm not familiar with what you're doing with perl to know what the above represents.) > I frankly don't know what files I need to show you, so I took a best guess > and put them here. > > http://steveo.syslang.net/net/hosts > http://steveo.syslang.net/net/local-host-names > http://steveo.syslang.net/net/sendmail.mc > http://steveo.syslang.net/net/submit.mc > http://steveo.syslang.net/net/trusted-users What's your /etc/host.conf file contents? Mine's: order hosts,bind Your /etc/nsswitch.conf file plays a similar role. You might want to post that, too. Mine's pasted below, minus the comments. passwd: files shadow: files group: files hosts: files dns bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files rpc: files services: files netgroup: files publickey: nisplus automount: files aliases: files nisplus Do you have your own DNS server with your own DNS records in it? Some things will need it for local name resolution, they won't pay attention to the hosts file. If you run services, it can be easier to run your own DNS server and ignore any from your ISP. Let your DNS server resolve local and internet addresses for you. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
