Re: Client Server and DNS

Juan, It may be worth changing the line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to hosts: files dns nis [NOTFOUND=return] see the man page on nsswitch.conf for more details Cheers, Peter +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Peter K. Botcherby, Guys Hospital, London, UK Tel +44 (0) 171 9554648 | | p.botcherby@umds.ac.uk Fax +44 (0) 171 9554644 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >Juan R. Guzman wrote: >> >> I've been having a problem. We use ODBC to connect to a Sparc Solaris 2.4 >> with Informix Online 7.11UC1 and when we turn on DNS for sendmail the ODBC >> clients take anywhere between 1 and 5 minutes to log on to Informix. When I turn >> it off everything is back to normal. If I use telnet while I'm having the >> problem it behaves fine. My hunch is DNS but I don't know what to do to solve >> it. Any ideas anyone? >> Mikey wrote, >Try some simple tests. >With the DNS on, do some nslookups. See how long it takes to have the >client >be seen from the host and vice a versa. > >One of the problems is that you are on a SUN. Are you also running NIS >or >NIS+ ? > >-Mikey >