[SunHELP] Re: [Suns-at-Home] Why does my ISDN link keep re-dialing?

[Richard Skelton]

Hi Larry,
I had already set this (actually I have stopped nscd for the moment) what I need 
to know is how to find which process is requesting the DNS lookup.

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>Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 13:26:56 -0400 (EDT)
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>The fix that worked for me in 8 was to edit /etc/nscd.conf and set
>the keep-hot-count for hosts to 0.  Then reboot, restart nscd, or
>probably just send it a HUP.  nscd is not a bad thing.  It just gets
>a bit chatty.
>HTH,
>-ls-
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>brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk (BrandonButterworth) wrote:
>> > I have a SparcStation LX with SunISDN 1.0.4 working with my ISP.
>> > The only problem is that it keeps re-dialing every few minuets :-
>> 
>> > I have snooped the ifppp0 interface and I think it's a DNS request which is 
>> > requesting the link to establish.
>> 
>> nscd does that (assuming Solaris) continuously, it's best killed
>> 
>> brandon
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Richard.
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