10.7 The DECS hang

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10.7 The DECS hang

Problem: We were able to seemingly crash the Domino server (actually, it was locked up) by accessing LotusScript functions that did look-ups external to the server itself, but with the server's address incorrectly specified in the server doc in the NAB.

Cause: The server setup routine placed the vmlinuxa into the server doc by default. vmlinuxa was not in the DNS, and either the LotusScript interpreter or some API call could not resolve that name to the numeric IP address. This caused the server to lock up.

Solution: When we changed the entry in the server doc from vmlinuxa.itso.company.com to the numeric IP address, everything functioned properly.

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