Apache hostnamelookups

[mdr]

Hi,

Without any (visible) reason, apache doesn't do reverse lookups anymore although Hostnamelookups = on.

Is there anywhere else I can look to see where things are going wrong?

 

[scsi]

Can you do reverse lookups on your server?

host <ip>

There is no reason if that option is on it shouldnt work.

Maybe you didnt restart apache.

 

[mdr]

Reverse lookups in general is no problem, it's only Apache that doesn't do reverse lookups anymore.

It started a several days ago and Apache has been restarted several times already.

It could be something unexplainable which a server reboot would solve since it has a high uptime (+500 days) but the nerd in me doesn't want to kill that uptime before looking into all the options

 

[scsi]

Did you change the

HostnameLookups On

in /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-default.conf

or did you change it in another file?

I dont know the reason why it wouldnt work.

You might want to check google for an answer.

 

[mdr]

Yep, hostnamelookups are on. Also grepped in all files to see if it was off anywhere else.

Google also doesn't provide me with some useful info otherwise I wouldn't have posted here.

Thanks for the help though!