Are the builders okay?

Adam Tkac atkac at redhat.com
Wed Jul 25 18:42:52 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating napsal(a):
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:30:21 +0200
> Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> They do network communication and perhaps they even are trying to do
>> some dns lookups if /etc/hosts is not set up properly to resolve the
>> machine's hostname. But they should communicate only on the machine
>> itself. Being a no-no means that we shouldn't be running them? They
>> are very useful for for example finding bugs in compiler.
>>     
>
> /etc/hosts has an entry for localhost, but it seems your test is trying
> to hit what is in /etc/resolv.conf which is a bogus IP.  Perhaps your
> test is getting a hostname of the builder and trying to look that up?
>   

If we are talking about DNS problems (and when I add yesterday "cvs 
renumbering" problem or what it was) I think it would be good have DNS 
server in build system and builders will ask to them instead using 
/etc/hosts file.

Adam




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