Bug#633793: Resolution

I am passing along this information in case anybody else runs into this problem. We found the cause of the problem with our DNS servers. We have a Cisco ACE load balancer sitting in front of a few DNS servers, which are presented as one DNS server. UDP fast aging was enabled on the ACE load bala

Bug#633793: (no subject)

We just discovered that we are also experiencing this same issue on CentOS 6 and Fedora 14. We are not experiencing the issue under CentOS 5 and Ubuntu 10.04. So this issue does not appear to be Debian-specific. Furthermore, we also discovered that using a different DNS server (the Google DNS se

Bug#633793: Acknowledgement (libc6: [sparc] getaddrinfo() times out, succeeds on retry)

I should add a few things. This system (and our network) is running IPv4 and IPv6. The DNS server is IPv4, but can resolve IPv6 records. Disabling IPv6 on this system ( |net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 |in sysctl.conf) does not effect the timeout behavior of getaddrinfo(). The strace outp

Bug#633793: libc6: [sparc] getaddrinfo() times out, succeeds on retry

Package: libc6 Version: 2.11.2-10 Severity: important getaddrinfo() randomly encounters 5 to 10 second delays in DNS name resolution, and sometimes fails. Using strace, I was able to track this down to timeouts in waiting for the UDP socket to be ready for a read(). Adjusting the timeout or atte