[stunnel-users] Temporary failure in name resolution

Tue Apr 26 09:14:29 CEST 2011

On Mon, 2011-04-25 20:16:56 +0100, Phil Wieland wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> Looking at syslog for boot time, it looks like stunnel tries to resolve  
> smtp.blueyonder.co.uk as soon as it starts, but dhcp hasn't finished at  
> this time so it fails.  It seems to cache something from the failure and  
> not try again?  Even though the error is "Temporary".

>From the stunnel man page:
>> 
>>  delay = yes | no
>>      delay DNS lookup for 'connect' option
>> 
>>      This option is useful for dynamic DNS, or when DNS is not available during stunnel
>>      startup (road warrior VPN, dial-up configurations).
>> 

HTH,

Ludolf

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