> When you resolve a hostname on RHEL5 (RHEL4 is affected too) that is in
> /etc/hosts, libresolv performs a DNS lookup. If your DNS is unavailable
> for whatever reason, it takes a long timeout for DNS before it returns the
> answer from /etc/hosts...

<snip>

I don't know if this is related or not .. but what are the contents of
/etc/host.conf ??

Barry

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