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To: dg@root.com, Carey Nairn <cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au>
From: Carey Nairn <C.Nairn@dpac.tas.gov.au>
Subject: Re: network performance problems with dual-homed host 
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this seems to tie in with the fact that connecting to the squid server on
the machine works without delays.  Squid doesn't do reverse lookups on the
client IP addresses.

thanks,
Carey Nairn


>   When you connect with telnet, for example, telnetd does a reverse lookup
>for the name from the IP address - so it doesn't matter what you specify
>on the client machine, the DNS problem is on the server; it's having trouble
>either getting to the nameserver, or the nameserver is having trouble getting
>to the authority for your in-addr.arpa zone.
>
>-DG
>
>David Greenman
>Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>
>
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