Re: WML and not unnecessary (?) DNS lookups.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:01:15PM +0100, Artur Meski wrote:
> When I execute 'wmk -a', something connected with WML does a lot of
> queries to DNS about host from which I'm logged into the server.
> 
> 
> [...]
> Nov 13 19:00:22.563 client 111.111.111.111#2593: query: REMOTEHOST IN A
> Nov 13 19:00:22.568 client 111.111.111.111#2594: query: REMOTEHOST IN AAAA
> [...]
> 
> 
> $ env | grep REMOTEHOST
> REMOTEHOST=REMOTEHOST
> 
> REMOTEHOST has nothing to do with that host (where I use
> WML) excluding the fact that I'm logged in from this host.
> 
> 
> I couldn't find out what's guilty -- perl or WML itself. Does it make
> any sense to do so many DNS lookups? Can I somehow disable them?
[...]

I believe that it can be caused by the getpwuid perl function.
You may edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and see if this problem disappears
when modifying some settings.

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer
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