Subject: Re: su and KRB
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Jaromír Dolecek <dolecek@ibis.cz>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/09/2000 22:33:01
Try newer snapshot, the issue with su taking long time to timeout
was already fixed. You'd need newer kernel as well.
Jaromir
Michael Richardson wrote:
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> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:
> Michael> I have been trying to figure out why "su" hangs for 30-60 seconds when I'm
> Michael> not on a network with 1.5ALPHA_2.
> Michael> I had assumed it was DNS, su looking for something to log, but after
> Michael> mucking around with nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf a bit, I ktrace'ed it from
> Michael> another window:
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> Okay, these are DNS requests. It asks for:
> krb4-realm.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca
> krb4-realm.ottawa.on.ca
> krb4-realm.on.ca
> krb4-realm.ca.
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> I can fix the first one to timeout faster by making sure that my localhost
> DNS server is found even when dhcpd has left bogus info in /etc/resolv.conf
> from a previous time when it found a network.
> But, my local DNS server isn't authoritative for the other addresses and it
> will have to timeout.
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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