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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:36:54PM -0500, Jan Harkes wrote: > I don't know exactly why but it looks like there are some resolver > issues in RedHat 9's glibc library. The basic symptom is that venus and > clog are 'Unable to resolve addresses for <insert realm name>'. > > This is caused by the fact that gethostbyname never really talks to the > DNS servers, but only tries /etc/hosts and the name server cache daemon > (nscd). Perhaps something goes wrong with the initialization of the > resolver library because we called res_search, to look for IN SRV > records, before falling back to gethostbyname based resolution. > > An interim solution is to start /usr/sbin/nscd as root and everything > works as it should. Strangely enough I just spend about 2 hours trying to debug a problem with identical symptoms. Running nscd didn't help at all in this case, as the problem was caused by missing entries for codasrv and codaauth2 in the /etc/services file. The next Coda release will dump an error message when we can't map the service name to a portnumber. JanReceived on 2003-11-05 10:58:40