That said: this is the third instance of slow DNS lookups being a bigger problem for the newer EMI-2 DPM releases. (I mentioned this ages ago at the start of your problems at Birmingham, as I recall.) Clearly it needs looking at by the DPM guys. Sam On 4 January 2013 15:01, Mark Slater <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Ewan, > > Fair point - at least I know that it wasn't something obvious that > everyone has running and I just didn't know about :) > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > On 04/01/13 14:58, Ewan MacMahon wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB- >>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Govind Songara >>> Sent: 04 January 2013 13:58 >>> >>> Yes we using Uni's one. >>> >>> We're in the same situation as Govind; no nscd, everything running >> fine. I think this probably is worth a mention in the DPM installation >> guide, but maybe more in terms of requiring decent working DNS, and >> maybe a suggestion of using nscd to work around the problem of slow >> DNS if you have it - I'm not sure nscd should be described as a >> general requirement since it, well, isn't. >> >> Ewan >> >