From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 15:26:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA92414E30 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a055.otenet.gr [195.167.115.55]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA26456 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 01:26:23 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 8599 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Oct 1999 18:17:01 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: w program output. References: From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 27 Oct 1999 21:17:01 +0300 In-Reply-To: FreeBSD Mailing list's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:01:02 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: <86bt9kmzxe.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Mailing list writes: > Hello, I have 3.3-STABLE kernel on 3.3-RELEASE system. > I have noticed the following behaviour on my system. > > If I issue the w command many times the FROM field displays to me the host > from which the users are connected but it happens often that the w output > hangs for some second and instead of the hostname the IP number is > displayed like if the w command is unable to find the hostname > from the IP address Faulty DNS setup? Using a name-server that takes too long to reply to you? Just guessing... Using the "-n" option will inhibit automatic DNS lookups, and only print IP addresses. But I doubt if this is what you want. Trying to make your DNS server respond faster seems like a better thing. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message