Re: hostnamelookups in apache?

Why do you think HostnameLookups is involved? HostnameLookups determines whether Apache tries to get the domain name associated with an IP address for logging purposes (etc). The error message indicates the inability to do the opposite. It sounds like a dns lookup failure.

>perl -MLWP::Simple -e "getprint 'http://bad.domain.com/'"
500 Can't connect to bad.domain.com:80 (Bad hostname 'bad.domain.com')
+ <URL:http://bad.domain.com/>
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Are you able to resolve news.google.com from your server? Are you sure it's spelled properly? (Try retyping it from scratch.) Are you sure there's no extra spaces or linefeeds? (Try printing the length of the uri.)

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Re^2: hostnamelookups in apache? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2006 at 21:49 UTC
I see, I think the problem is within apache options because the dns name resolves fine and i get lots of output from my script (read from news.google.com) via terminal, when i run the script as root or apache user. Its when i run it via Mozilla when i get this error. /AL	[reply]
Re^3: hostnamelookups in apache? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 11, 2006 at 22:29 UTC
It would be weird for Apache to bar your script from accessing the DNS server. Hold back on guessing and try debugging.	[reply]