[nylug-talk] dig weird behavior

[Frank D. Greco]

At 03:15 PM 9/28/2006, Peter C. Norton wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:21:23AM -0400, Frank D. Greco wrote:
> > >How big's the host list?
> >
> >         About 50.  Not humongous.
>
>You're not running out of any resources in the shell, you're probably
>just overwhelming the resolver and getting packets dropped.
>
>Try reducing your concurrency to about 20, though 5 would be safer.

         I reduced it to 5... still doesn't work.  My ulimit is set
         to unlimited.

         I watched my resources via top; nothing out of the ordinary.
         Dig seemed to use very little resources actually.  I get all
         the files created in that directory.  The instances of dig come
         up and go away as expected.  But some of the files are 0 bytes
         and the script just hangs.

         Quite odd.

         Perhaps there's some weird concurrency interaction with dig
         and the DNS server?

> >          I've been working with RH Linux the past 3 years.  I would not
> >          use the word 'robust' in the same sentence.  ;)
> >
>Well, you can use the word "robust" when it comes to RH. Just
>de-emphasize the "ro"and put heavy emphasis on  "bust" !!
>
>mylar

         LOL.  :)

         Frank
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