Re: [users@httpd] Retry: HostnameLookups timeout?

[Boysenberry Payne <boysenberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about using some kind of handler that forks its own lookup routine
outside of apache (or mod_perl, perl, phython, php, etc?)

Thanks,
Boysenberry

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On Mar 22, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Markus Mayer wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I posted this one Thursday last week but so far got no answer, so I'll 
> try
> again today.
>
> I have a small problem with some reverse lookups for which I hope 
> somebody
> here might be able to help me with.
>
> Generally reverse lookups work well, but for some IP addresses the 
> reverse
> lookup times out.  With the help of our network admins, I was able to
> identify the problem.  It is a name server problem of the ISP from 
> which a
> host connects.  For what ever reason, there is no answer from the 
> problem
> nameserver.  With HostnameLookups on, and these problem namseservers, 
> apache
> waits about 12 minutes before sending any data back to the host that
> requested the page.  On a normal Linux and Solaris command line, an 
> nslookup,
> host, or dig fails within 10 seconds with a timeout.
>
> To get around this problem, I wanted to configure how long apache 
> waits for a
> response, however I have not been able to find such an option.  I also 
> looked
> in the source code, but was not able to find where this timeout is set.
> Either solution is fine for me, however of course a configuration 
> directive
> to set timeouts for HostnameLookups would be much more preferable.  
> Does any
> one know what directive there is to set, of if there is even one?  And 
> if
> there's no directive, where in the source code do I look to set this?
>
> All help on this will be greatly appreciated.
>
> greetings from Austria.
> Markus
>
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