retitle 307462 Workaround required for Net::Domain brokenness causing timeouts (#275024) quit
* Marc Haber > Next time, better clone the bug for reassignment against the other > package and leave the original open against your package so that the > issue can be seen by people experiencing the same behavior. That would > have saved me some debugging time today. Sorry about that, I wasn't aware that this actually would occur in a normal situation (#275024 only happened during installation of Debian- Edu, according to the submitter). And it isn't a bug in Munin, strictly speaking. * Tore Anderson > For some strange reason, this module makes a lot of weird DNS lookup > even though all the information it needs sits right there in > /etc/hosts. So, given a DNS server which times out on requests instead > of answering NXDOMAIN or something else right away, you'd have to wait > for a lot of timeouts in order for the Net::Domain::hostfqdn() call to > finish (in my testing, six (6) times!!). * Marc Haber > Why is the local hostname resolved that often? I don't know, you'd have to ask the Net::Domain author. Seems broken to me, in any case - especially when "hostname --fqdn" manages to find the hostname without any DNS lookups. The Sys::Hostname workaround I suggested mimics the behaviour of "hostname --fqdn", which seems to be the Proper Way. > Thanks for working on this. You can close this bug report if you think > that there is nothing more that munin can do. Now that I know that #275024 can bite us in "normal" environments, I'll just keep it open and try to get a workaround in there soon. In light of tonight's freeze, it seems unlikely that such a fix will make it into Sarge - unless of course I can sneak it in alongside a fix for a yet-to-be-reported >=important bug. :-) Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you: You can work around this yourself by adding "host_name your.fully-qualified.hostname" in /etc/munin/munin-node.conf. That should prevent it from making any hostname lookups at all. Regards, -- Tore Anderson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
