<p dir="ltr">It does that in order to resolve its fully qualified domain name, as gethostname() as the syscall usually returns a short hostname. You should add the short hostname to /etc/hosts, with the long hostname listed first and the short nonqualified hostname as an alias.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It should avoid the dns lookup and is good practice anyway.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 24, 2015 6:44 PM, "Peter Volkov" <<a href="mailto:peter.volkov@gmail.com">peter.volkov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi guys. Whenever syslog-ng start without networking it hangs trying to resolve hostname it runs on (checked with tcpdump). Now I've tried to add use_dns(no); into configuration file but delay still in place:</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>options {</div><div> use_dns(no);</div><div> use_fqdn(no);</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>I've tried to google, but still failed to find answer: Is there any way to disable this hostname resolution delay?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank in advance,</div>--<br>Peter.</div></div>
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