On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:53 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

> Hmm. Weird. I dimly remember that tcpwrappers did something
> similar: to check the host name they sometimes tried a
> reverse host lookup, which took its time when it failed.

I've never seen or heard of anything like this -- the kernel complaining of the 
wrong #defines in the source code? That, to me, is massively broken. Anyway, 
it's all OK now; it got a new Jessie this afternoon :-)

> But perhaps I'm up the wrong alley.

Probably. I claim there were just too many wrong alleys. And certainly not 
worth the time to try to fix it.

> Hmmm. Sorry to be so unspecific.

No prob. Everybody's happy now. I just have some data to copy over from the old 
disk. At least it wasn't the hardware...

-- 
Glenn English



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