Re: [Summary-Talk] recurring database corruption

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In this case I can see from the log you quoted that Summary is failing 
when it starts to do DNS lookups. You should confirm that that is really 
the problem by disabling DNS lookups, on the Options configuration page, 
and seeing if Summary works correctly.

Several things might cause DNS lookups to fail. The first thing to test 
is if the machine has a correctly configured DNS server. Type "host 
www.yahoo.com" from the command line. If that hangs or fails you have a 
DNS configuration problem in your Linux setup which will need to be 
resolved before you try DNS lookups with Summary again.

Another thing which sometimes helps is to set "Slow down DNS lookups by 
(0-full speed)", on the Miscellaneous configuration page, to something 
non-zero, perhaps 15 to start. That might allow DNS lookups to work, and 
if it does you can try lower numbers to speed things up and see if they 
also work.

Good Luck
Jason


On 12/15/03 2:41 PM Scott Marjason (scott@insigniadesign.com) wrote:

>I'm having this problem as well. After nothing working right with 
>FreeBSD, I wiped the server and installed Linux. Still having the 
>same problem, though it doesn't complain about quitting.
>
>~/data/summary.log looks like:
>
>...
>Read 92,269 entries in 0:03!
>1111 (of 1844860) IPs to be resolved, checking the DNS cache file.
>6 corrupt lines in the DNS lookup cache were ignored.
>Matched 0/1111 IPs from the cache file.
>Saving binary report database.
>Starting DNS lookups.
>Running for 9 day(s) 6 hour(s) 34 minutes at Dec 12, 2003 03:52PM.
>Running for 9 day(s) 7 hour(s) 4 minutes at Dec 12, 2003 04:22PM.

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