[hobbit] Hobbit bbtest-net crashing

[Everett, Vernon]

Hmmm 
Found the answer. 
Thanks Alan.
And a little caveat. 

"The system resolver function does not provide a mechanism for controlling timeouts of the hostname lookups, so if your DNS or NIS server is down, bbtest-net can take a very long time to run. The --dns-timeout option is effectively disabled when using this option."

Amazing what you can learn when you sit down and carefully RTFM :-)

A little worried about implementing it just yet, but we will see how it goes.

Of course, as is always the case, since I started getting somewhere with trying to resolve this, it stopped crashing.
No crashes since last night - touch wood.

Cheers
    V


-----Original Message-----
From: Everett, Vernon 
Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 9:25 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit bbtest-net crashing

Disabling it?
Are you saying we do not need to use this module?
How would I go about changing my installation to not use C-ARES?
Bbtest.net is crashing at least twice a day in our environment.

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers
    V


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Sparks [mailto:asparks at doublesparks.net]
Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 9:17 AM
To: Hobbit List
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit bbtest-net crashing

Henrik StXXrner wrote:
> In <A3D12FAD74FC8B46991703F40C182BABAB31681A at permls102.wde.woodside.com.au> "Everett, Vernon" <Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> writes:
>
>   
>> Does 4.2.2 RC? use C-ARES 1.2.1, 1.4.0 or 1.5.3?
>> Or have you not made any changes that drastic?
>>     
>
> 4.2.2 still has the 1.2.1 version of c-ares in it.
>
> I've added the patch needed for it to compile with the current version 
> of C-ARES (1.5.x), so if need be we can easily drop that into the code 
> if people have problems with the old version. This is not in RC1, but 
> in the repository.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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FWIW, using the ARES resolver on out CentOS4 x86_64 systems has been a general disaster, running much slower than disabling it.
-Alan



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