From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 23 23:21:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07184 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 23:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quartz.sentex.ca (quartz.sentex.ca [209.112.4.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07172 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 23:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by quartz.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA25477 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:22:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980924022527.00d10bb0@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:25:27 -0400 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: resolving ips? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:04 PM 9/23/98 -0500, 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. Just give it time... It will work eventually. The system you are trying to telnet to is trying to lookup the name of the host you are coming from so it can log it. >Why consult the resolver? Why not just make your connection based on the >kernel routing tables? I am not sure what you mean by the routing table in this case.. What you are describing is a DNS timeout...If you want it to work faster in this situation, then change /etc/host.conf to list hosts first, then bind and add the necessary information in your /etc/hosts file. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message