Very, glad I could help though :) On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Tom Lloyd <TomLloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > nsswitch seems to be OK, but it wasn't aliased to localhost for ipv6. I've fixed that now (and knocked back the ipv6 precedence in /etc/gai.conf) and it seems to be behaving... > > Still doesn't explain to me why it was looking itself up in the first place... Weird :/ > > -- Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: charlesmorris@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:charlesmorris@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Morris > Sent: 24 May 2012 17:40 > To: Tom Lloyd > Cc: Matijn Woudt; php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Mysterious 5 second delay on sybase_connect() > > Is it's own host name in the hosts file and nsswitch.conf set up correctly? > > Alternatively disable all the ipv6 adapters if you aren't using them. > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Tom Lloyd <TomLloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Say the webserver is called foo, on the domain company.local. No ipv6 is enabled in the network. A network trace tells me that when the HTTP request comes in, the webserver sends out a DNS request for "AAAA foo.company.local". Nothing replies, and after 5 seconds it times out and carries on doing what it was doing. >> >> Why would it be doing a DNS lookup for the IPv6 address of its own hostname? And more urgently, how can I stop it? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tom Lloyd >> Sent: 24 May 2012 16:26 >> To: 'Matijn Woudt' >> Cc: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: RE: Mysterious 5 second delay on sybase_connect() >> >> I'm getting increasingly suspicious that DNS is to blame. If I was to do something like: >> >> $conn = sybase_connect( "10.0.0.11\SQLMAIN", $user, $pass ) >> >> Would that trigger a lookup of some variety? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Matijn Woudt [mailto:tijnema@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: 24 May 2012 13:00 >> To: Tom Lloyd >> Cc: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: Mysterious 5 second delay on sybase_connect() >> >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Tom Lloyd <TomLloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi there. I'm working on a PHP-driven project on Debian Squeeze that >>> connects to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server 2008. >>> I'm using the sybase extensions to PHP. >>> >>> Since I rebooted the webserver on the weekend, both the >>> sybase_connect() and sybase_pconnect() commands will sometimes take >>> exactly 5 seconds to execute. It seems to be random whether they do >>> this or not. I can't think of anything that could have been changed >>> by the reboot, unless a package was updated but its associated process never got restarted... >>> >>> Does anyone know what might cause this behaviour? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Tom Lloyd >>> >> >> It most likely has nothing to do with PHP, but is rather a routing issue. 5 seconds is the default connection time out for TCP/IP, so it probably makes sense that the connection is failing at a lower level. >> >> - Matijn -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
