On 12/10/2010 09:04 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Steve Clark<sclark at netwolves.com> > >> I have a confusing problem. I have two centos 5,5 boxes. Both have >> sudo.i386 1.7.2p1-9.el5_5 >> > installed > >> I am using the same sudoers file, but the one on box A keeps trying to do DNS >> lookups >> while the one on box B does not. How do I disable this DNS lookup? >> > Do you have fqdn in sudoers? > > No, thats the crazy part. I don't have that enabled and it still does the DNS lookup. I tried turning it on to see what would happen and the only thing different was it spit out: $ sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf sudo: unable to resolve host Z7070.netwolves.com Vim: Caught deadly signal TERM Vim: Finished. Terminated I finally killed it from another terminal cause it was taking so long. Without the: Defaults fqdn it hangs for a long time, this is when I don't have connection to the net, if I have connection there is just a slight pause while tries to do the DNS lookup. > man sudoers: > "Beware that turning on fqdn requires sudo to make DNS > lookups which may make sudo unusable if DNS stops > working" > > JD > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Sr. Software Engineer III Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101210/a2be09df/attachment-0005.html>