Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 10:45:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Steve Leibel <stevel@coastside.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to disable local dns lookups? Message-ID: <20000206104537.E16173@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210101b4c23727330a@[192.168.100.2]> References: <v04210101b4c23727330a@[192.168.100.2]>
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On Saturday, 5 February 2000 at 12:27:57 -0800, Steve Leibel wrote: > I have a second machine (a Mac, as it happens) on my home network. I > don't run a local DNS. > > When I telnet or ftp into my FreeBSD machine from my Mac, the > connection takes about 30 or 40 seconds to come up. > > However when I turn on my dialup Internet connection (which > coincidentally is on the Mac -- I use the Mac as a router, using > third-party routing software called IPNetrouter) my telnet and ftp > connections to FreeBSD come up right away, as they should. > > What I think must be happening is that when my Net connection is > down, FreeBSD must be trying to do DNS resolution, retrying a few > times, and then giving up. That's probably correct. > How do I tell telnet and ftp on FreeBSD to not do DNS lookups when > receiving connection requests? Or do you think something else is > going on? Well, you could rewrite telnetd. Or you could install an /etc/hosts. But the obvious way to do it is to install DNS; that's what it's there for. There's no good reason not to run DNS. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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