Re: Understanding DNS service

Andre Coetzee wrote:

> > > On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Andre Coetzee wrote:
> > >
> > > I am (still) battling with DNS lookups, which are triggering diald
> > > (automatic on-demand dialler) to dial out even when requested URLs are
> > > already in the squid cache.
> >
> >Bruce Campbell replied:
> >
> > a) Configure diald to ignore requests for DNS lookups. (man diald ;) )
> > b) Running named will help squid a little, and other functions of the
> > computer a little more.
> >
>
> Thanks. I tried this. I can't seem to trigger diald at all now. Perhaps
> a
> reinstall of diald will be in order.
>
> I think my system is suffering from a serious lack of resources at this
> time.
> My hardware is only 8 Mb physical RAM with 16 Mb swap and free disk
> space
> is around 25 Mb.

That _is_ pretty light.

>
>
> My syslogd doesn't start up anymore until I run it by hand, and I notice
> that httpd tends to run away creating 100+ children, even though there
> is only one
> browser window open. It brings the machine to a virtual standstill.
>

Re: Syslogd..make sure you have your system's hostname in your /etc/hosts
file. I've noticed syslogd can get pedantic about starting up if it can't
resolve it's name at runtime.

D

> Maybe I'll get some new hardware for Christmas.

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