Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> Anyway, the tail end of the trace >> shows it repeatedly sending off a UDP packet and getting practically the >> same data back: >> >> >> I'm not too up on what the DNS protocol looks like on-the-wire, but I'll >> bet this is it. I think it's trying to look up "kaltenbrunner.cc" and >> failing. >> >> >> > > Why are we actually looking up anything? Just so we can bind to a > listening socket? > > Anyway, maybe the box needs a lookup line in its /etc/resolv.conf to > direct it to use files first, something like > > lookup file bind > > Stefan, can you look into that? It would be a bit ugly if it's calling > DNS (and failing) to resolve localhost.
no - resolving localhost works fine (both using /etc/hosts and through the dns-resolver) - and I infact verified that when we initially started to investigate that issue a while ago :-) Stefan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq