From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 24 8:16:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E82737BC9F for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:15:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00101; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:15:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <397C5E86.6B0A0B72@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:19:34 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" Cc: Nick Rogness , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gateway strange behaviour for telnet and ftp References: <397C6440.37253C6C@agie.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" wrote: > > Hi Nick. Thanks for replying. > > But why it behaves that way only for telnet/ftp/nfs? Because the server daemones for each of those do the reverse lookup, for logging and/or authentication purposes. Ping never gets out of the IP stack; one of the reasons it is preferred for testing connectivity is the minimal load it imposes on the target being pinged. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message