[mythtv-users] sudden change in recording start-up time

[malcolm]

On 30/06/10 00:41, Ajay Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:13 PM, malcolm<malcolm.torrent at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> any ideas on how to check if there is a DNS timeout?
>>
>>      
> Is the frontend using an IP address for the backend or a hostname?  If
> it's using a hostname, try doing a:
>
> dig hostname
>
> or
>
> host hostname
>
> dig comes from the "dnsutils" package and host comes from the
> "bind9-host" package on ubuntu.  It should respond immediately.
>
> If it's using an IP address, then it's not a DNS issue unless mythtv
> does a reverse dns lookup when an IP address connect, but I'm *pretty*
> sure it doesn't.
>
> --Ajay
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my MBE is at 192.168.0.5 the results seem to imply a prompt response to 
the dig and that host 192.168.0.5 does a reverse lookup and fails, 
perhaps because my router (192.168.0.1) doesn't know the hostnames of 
the PCs.
I don't think DNS is the problem.

~$ dig 192.168.0.5

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> 192.168.0.5
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 20939
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;192.168.0.5.                   IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       10800   IN      SOA     a.root-servers.net. 
nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2010062901 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 47 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 30 00:45:38 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 104


~$ host 192.168.0.5
Host 5.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)