Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 22:45:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: [Q]telnet/ftp doesnot work correctly Message-ID: <199705250445.WAA28108@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970524174114.20368H-100000@aak.anchorage.net> References: <XFMail.970524121350.joki@jocki.domestic.de> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970524174114.20368H-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
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On Sat, 24 May 1997, Joachim Kuebart wrote:
% [...] tell the resolver to _first_ look up host names in /etc/hosts,
% then try to find out via DNS.
Steve Howe writes:
> why? from what i understand, a failed DNS lookup should be faster than
> hosts can be accessed/process off the drive ... i may be wrong - but this
> is what many ISPs tell me.
Hah! Maybe for them, but not for you at the wrong end of a 28.8/33.6
kbps dial-up link. Especially not if the link has to be dialed *first.*
Even my 386sx/16 can read a disk file in less than 65 seconds! ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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