On 30/04/11 11:00, stunnel-users-request@stunnel.org wrote:

Your stunnel.conf contains: chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4/

Unfortunately this directory does not contain resolver configuration files:

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These are WITHOUT the suggested patch, I am not really equipped for building on this server. The patch should solve your problem by causing stunnel to wait until your resolver is available before chroot(2) is executed.

Workarounds: 1. mkdir /var/lib/stunnel4/etc&& cp /etc/resolv.conf /var/lib/stunnel4/etc/ 2. Use IP address instead of host names in your stunnel.conf 3. Add static IP address of your remote host to /etc/hosts

Best regards, Mike

Many thanks for the analysis, Mike. I'll have to organise myself to build so I can apply the patch. Can I be really cheeky and ask one more question? Why does the problem not go away when my resolver is available - Shouldn't stunnel look again for this stuff after getting a temporary error? Thanks again, Phil