Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Sven,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 08:51:36PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Am 19.10.2010 um 20:50 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:

> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:17:18AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> >> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:22:30PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> >> Please make sure that it resolves to 140.186.70.72 instead of
> >> >> 140.186.70.73.

> >> >     $ nslookup bzr.sv.gnu.org

> >> > gives "Address: 140.186.70.72".

> >> And what do you get from "getent ahosts bzr.savannah.gnu.org"?

> > 140.186.70.73   STREAM bzr.savannah.gnu.org
> > 140.186.70.73   DGRAM  bzr.savannah.gnu.org
> > 140.186.70.73   RAW    bzr.savannah.gnu.org

> > Wierd.  Surely nslookup and getent should give the same answers?

> Not necessarily.  AFAIK nslookup always contacts a nameserver, whereas
> getent might obtain the IP by other means (e.g. via a hosts(5) file).

That was it!  I had an entry for bzr.savannah.gnu.org in my /etc/hosts
(without which there is a 20s delay on every name lookup by SSH; I've
been meaning to debug this for about 3 years, now).

Thanks Sven, thanks Andreas!

> Sven