Re: iauth timeout

["Stephen Biggs" <s_c_biggs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 05:22:25PM -0700, Stephen Biggs wrote:
> > > Did you consider this might not be a ident problem, but the
> > > resolver?  It also has a timeout.
> > 
> > I thought that using the "-q" stops name resolution...
> 
> No it doesn't.  There isn't an option to do that.  It stops it
> from resolving the hosts in the config file during startup, to
> speed things up a little.
> 
> Maybe we really should make an option to disable the resolver.
> 
> > > Do you resolv when you get online?  Did you check your
> > > /etc/resolv.conf?  Ircd needs a working nameserver.
> > 
> > ... see above... What do you mean by "resolv"ing?  I get the host 
> > name in the client from the server and everything else is dotted IP 
> > just like I used to connect.
> 
> If you get on IRC, does it show your "hostname" with an ip
> address or with a name?  I really think you mean that you always
> show up with the IP address because you don't have a working
> nameserver to resolve it for you.

Yes, this is it... I am trying to connect to a raw IP address instead of 
a name and it shows it to me that way.

What if I put the relevant IP addresses/names in the /etc/hosts... will 
this eliminate the 30 second resolver timeout?

> 
> > > > Also, no logs are generated except for the stdout to the console.
> > > 
> > > Well, you used -t, which makes the debug log to go stdout.
> > > ircd.log should be created in /usr/local/var/log.
> > 
> > This is not happening....
> 
> It should be /usr/local/var/log/ircd/ of course.  If ircd has
> permission to create a file there, it will do so, if it doesn't
> exist already.
> 
> > > Other log files are only written to when they exist.  You have to
> > > create them before it attempts to write to it.
> > 
> > So I need to create such as auth.log before it can be written to?
> 
> iauth.log is a debug log too, which it should create itself.
> 
> What you want to create are users, rejects, opers and auth, in
> that same directory.
> 
> 
> Kurt
>