Symptom
- You have external RFC client program which connects to SAP.
- When there are multiple calls in parallel by RFC client program, you may face slow response or even timeout.
- At the same time, you found the work process is in "On Hold" RFC status and in the gateway trace, you found the following error:
NiHLGetHostName: to get xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx failed in xxxxms (tl=2000ms)
*** ERROR => NiHLGetHostName: NiPGetHostByAddr failed (rc=-1) [nixxhl.
cpp 495]
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Environment
SAP system is running on WINDOWs OS
Product
SAP NetWeaver all versions
Keywords
Logon hang, timeout, logon performance, logon slow, name resolving takes long time, hanging, intermittent , KBA , BC-CST-GW , Gateway/CPIC , BC-MID-RFC , RFC , BC-OP-NT , Windows , BC-NET , Network Infrastructure , Problem
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