Re: [RUN] Timeout occurs

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 03/22/01


On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Janvier D. Anonical wrote:

>SYSERR: gethostbyaddr: No error
>Mar 22 19:33:28 :: SYSERR: Missed 54 seconds worth of pulses.
>Mar 22 19:33:28 :: SYSERR: Losing descriptor without char.
>
>I tried to trace this and the cause was in comm.c. It seems that resolution
>has failed as given by the code below:
>
>  /* find the sitename */
>  if (nameserver_is_slow || !(from = gethostbyaddr((char *) &peer.sin_addr,
>                                      sizeof(peer.sin_addr), AF_INET))) {

Try setting 'nameserver_is_slow' in config.c or the 'slowns' command.

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org

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