Re: DNS vs /etc/hosts

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:29:46PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> Anybody know if AAAA queries can be disabled in Linux?  Lowell, if
> nobody answers here then you might need to seek help in a different
> forum.  Or you could just hack the code and change AF_UNSPEC to
> AF_INET ;-)

Lowell, aside from trying to disable AAAA queries altogether, you
might want to investigate why those top-level domain queries are
timing out.  Those queries should fail fairly quickly -- is your
connectivity to the root DNS servers poor or non-existent?  But
that's getting off-topic for this list....

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Michael Fuhr