The obvious answer to this problem is to turn off HostnameLookups and use something like the logresolve program included in apache to resolve hostnames in your logs. On 3/23/06, Markus Mayer <mymaillists@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I looked in the code and the manuals for the system calls. It seems I have no > control over this from apache. I will have to look in the system itself, but > I doubt I can change anything there. If I find something I will report back > to the list because it is certainly useful for other people. > > Thanks > Markus > > > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:58, Boyle Owen wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Markus Mayer [mailto:mymaillists@xxxxxx] > > > Sent: Mittwoch, 22. März 2006 16:15 > > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: [users@httpd] Retry: HostnameLookups timeout? > > > > > > > > > Generally reverse lookups work well, but for some IP > > > addresses the reverse > > > lookup times out. > > > > > > 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 suspect that this is not apache's problem... In the OSI model, Apache > > works on the application layer so any requests for services from other > > machines are passed down to the TCP/IP layer for routing. It is there that > > the DNS lookup takes place. > > > > From apache's POV, all it does is ask the TCP/IP layer to get the hostname > > for a particular IP - apache doesn't care about the implementation... > > > > > I also looked > > > in the source code, but was not able to find where this > > > timeout is set. > > > > look in server/core.c; apache uses apr_getnameinfo() which in turn uses the > > system function getnameinfo() (do "man getaddrinfo" for details) > > > > Rgds, > > Owen Boyle > > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > > > > 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 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > > > Server Project. > > > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Diese E-mail ist eine private und persönliche Kommunikation. Sie hat keinen > > Bezug zur Börsen- bzw. Geschäftstätigkeit der SWX Gruppe. This e-mail is of > > a private and personal nature. It is not related to the exchange or > > business activities of the SWX Group. 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