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Re: Hostname Resolution

To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: Re: Hostname Resolution
From: yeoks@raleigh.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:07:57 +0800
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:09:35PM +0200, REIBENSCHUH Alfred wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William.Stringfellow@BANKOFAMERICA.COM
> > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 12:11 AM
> > Subject: [NV-L] Hostname Resolution
> > 
> > We are looking at whether or not using /etc/hosts for name 
> > resolution is
> > impacting performance.  We currently have >33K interfaces in 
> > our host file.
> 
> we have 12k+ interfaces and had a serious performance problem
> after switching from aix-4.2.1 to 4.3.2 using /etc/hosts 
> name-resolution, since the ipv6 support in aix-4.3.x slows
> down /etc/hosts based name resolution by a factor of 20.
> ("ovstart netmon" took 4 hours to complete on a S7A !!!)
> 
> we had to migrate to dns, which is only a problem if you
> don't have the dns-server on the netview-server or you have
> dns-downtimes (which will practically disable netview)

since you have migrated to dns, u can't try this.  but i would be
interested to know if this helps (for the someone else with the
same scenario)

$ cat /etc/netsvc.conf
hosts=local4
$

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