From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 23 22:45:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03162 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:45:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA03152 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zM4Df-00014a-00; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:45:35 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:45:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Mark Murdock cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resolving ips? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Mark Murdock wrote: > Yet another question for freebsd-stable network experts: > > When I try to telnet to an ip address, my system attempts to contact my > name servers in my /etc/resolv.conf file. I was actually unable to telnet > to an ip due to this when my ipfw configuration was blocking udp on 53. > > Why consult the resolver? Why not just make your connection based on the > kernel routing tables? Routing tables and DNS are completely unrelated. Telnet wants to find the name for the IP it is connecting to. The resolver will take a long time if the listed DNS servers don't respond. It will eventually timeout and give up, you just aren't patient enough. > Thanks, > Mark Murdock > fee@tetranet.net Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message