Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!qmc-cs!liam From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Long pause using Berkeley networking Summary: Blame the nameserver. Message-ID: <617@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 9 Sep 88 21:49:32 GMT References: <16077@onfcanim.UUCP> Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. Lines: 40 Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: In article <16077@onfcanim.UUCP> dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) writes: >Does anybody know what is going on here? Is the Mac looking for a >Yellow Pages server to look up the remote host name, even though there >is no "+" line in /etc/hosts? We are all suffering from the blessed name daemon. The gethostent(3N) routines are trying to locate a nameserver by broadcasting on the network to do host lookup. This is what our monitoring system shows: (ethal) trace 10 occurrences of mymc2 packet filter-name time etdst ipsrc usport udport 0000 mymc2 0000 0x02.07.01.00.34.da aux0 1023 2049 0001 mymc2 0220 0x02.07.01.00.34.da aux0 1023 2049 0002 mymc2 0380 0x02.07.01.00.34.da aux0 1023 2049 0003 mymc2 0600 0xff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff aux0 1086 domain 0004 mymc2 37780 0x02.07.01.00.34.da aux0 1023 2049 0005 mymc2 37900 0x02.07.01.00.34.da aux0 1023 2049 0006 mymc2 37980 0x02.07.01.00.34.da aux0 1023 2049 0007 mymc2 38180 0xff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff aux0 1089 domain 0008 mymc2 52940 0x02.07.01.00.34.da aux0 1023 2049 0009 mymc2 53260 0xff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff aux0 1092 domain Ok Apple - how do I turn this off? I too would like to mount NFS filesystems without hanging. >Does anyone else run TCP and NFS without YP? Yes, we do. The only people who get NFS are our undergraduate students and that's only because there machines will die if the NFS servers go down: a little YP poison can't makes things much worse. Otherwise I avoid it like the plague because its retry strategy is so awful: I don't believe that it should try forever to find a server. -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu) Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP LONDON, UK Tel: 01-975 5250