I wouldn't understand why only a single service is hosing the system, but I found DNS & BIND by O'Reilly & Associates to be a most excellent book. Not only does it cover setup, installation, and registration, it also has programming specs, source code, and troubleshooting tips. You might want to check your serial# on all your database files and make sure for kicks they are incremented by one. That is usually what causes weird situations like this. wart *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=* w0nderful *-=-* w0rld *-=-* 0f *-=-* wart *-=-=-=-=-* hartman@kuntrynet.com wart@trilidun.kuntrynet.com http://trilidun.kuntrynet.com Eudaemonia Mud: mud.kuntrynet.com Port 4000 On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Rasmus 'Con' Ronlev wrote: > > > [NOTE: Message crossposted to the 'Moderated CircleMUD List'] > > Hi, > > Recently I've had some problems with 'lag' on the mud, at least thats what > I thought it was, till I traced the problem down to the Gethostbyaddr() > call in comm.c. The interesting part is, that the mud only seems to 'hang' > in the systemcall on a certain domain/ISP (208.132.119.*). It seems to me, > that disabling the lookup of hostanmes because of just one domain name > causing trouble is a little overkill (not to mention causing problems if > banned sites allso have to be banned by IP ads well as hostname.. etc.). > > What I was wondering about was how to solve the problem with the mud > beeing 'idled' so to speak, when it tried to look up this certain site. > > First off I was wondering if ther eis an obvious and easy slution to stop > looking up certain domains, or if there is some sort of 'fixing' i could > do on my server, like the DNS service at the ISP I run my mud at ? > > Seccondly I was wondering if anyone knew where I can get any > specifications, like an RFC about how to contact DNS-systems, so I could > build a 'hostname' lookup procedure similar to the one that the ident > patch for circle at the ftp site offers, and thus enabeling the > possibility of 'lag' in the lookup, that doesn't affect the mud. > > If I missed any other obvious, or not that obviois solutions, please post > them, as I really want to find the best way to solve the problem (perhaps > even make some code public *wowo* :) Ofcourse I'd only do that if what I > made proves to work (better) than what circlemud offers at present. > > Oh yeah, and just because I used the name RFC, it doesn't mean I'm a > Unix/OS-guru *cackle* So, please try to respond in plain english if you > can :) > > Thanks in advance, > Con. > > d. > -- > Rasmus Rønlev DOEK'94 WWW: http://www.econ.cbs.dk/people/raro94ab > Student instructor MUD: exiled.mud.circlemud.org 5000 > 199.199.16.100 5000 > Student, B.Sc in Computer Science and Business Administration. > > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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