Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:15:19 -0700 From: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> To: Craig Boston <craig@yekse.gank.org>, Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why does Xfce 4.2 have to query a DNS ? Message-ID: <8cb27cbf050314131526d38ba1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050314203741.GB13267@nowhere> References: <8cb27cbf05031211126ca5f67d@mail.gmail.com> <20050314183452.GA13267@nowhere> <8cb27cbf050314115632893e85@mail.gmail.com> <20050314203741.GB13267@nowhere>
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Craig: I just did tcpdump -i tun0 'udp and port domain' notebook2# tcpdump -i tun0 'udp and port domain' tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on tun0, link-type NULL (BSD loopback), capture size 96 bytes 14:11:12.602265 IP 37.denver-03rh15rt.co.dial-access.att.net.52763 > ns7.worldnet.att.net.domain: 54055+ AAAA? gmail.google.com. (34) 14:11:12.747917 IP 37.denver-03rh15rt.co.dial-access.att.net.55104 > ns7.worldnet.att.net.domain: 38507+ PTR? 3.160.127.204.in-addr.arpa. (44) 14:11:12.880879 IP ns7.worldnet.att.net.domain > 37.denver-03rh15rt.co.dial-access.att.net.52763: 54055 1/1/0 CNAME[|domain] 14:11:12.881012 IP 37.denver-03rh15rt.co.dial-access.att.net.50931 > ns7.worldnet.att.net.domain: 54056+ A? gmail.google.com. (34) I see that the domain names are A and AAAA ? I have seen this before, when I am at the WiFi cafe. How could this be? On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:37:42 -0600, Craig Boston <craig@yekse.gank.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:56:03PM -0700, Jon Drews wrote: > > I have this: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.silbsd.org notebook2.silbsd.org notebook2 > > Hmm, that's really odd then. Both getaddrinfo and gethostbyname should > use hosts first and then fall back on DNS if that fails. Perhaps it's > querying for some other name besides your own. Is it possible to run > tcpdump on the ppp interface to see what name it's trying to resolve? > > Craig >
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