Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Tom Lane wrote:
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>> Anyway, the tail end of the trace
>> shows it repeatedly sending off a UDP packet and getting practically the
>> same data back:
>>
>>
>> I'm not too up on what the DNS protocol looks like on-the-wire, but I'll
>> bet this is it. I think it's trying to look up "kaltenbrunner.cc" and
>> failing.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Why are we actually looking up anything? Just so we can bind to a
> listening socket?
>
> Anyway, maybe the box needs a lookup line in its /etc/resolv.conf to
> direct it to use files first, something like
>
> lookup file bind
>
> Stefan, can you look into that? It would be a bit ugly if it's calling
> DNS (and failing) to resolve localhost.
no - resolving localhost works fine (both using /etc/hosts and through
the dns-resolver) - and I infact verified that when we initially started
to investigate that issue a while ago :-)
Stefan