From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 24 19:10:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06246 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06130 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA27208; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:39:47 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:39:46 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mark Murdock Subject: Re: resolving ips? Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Tancsa Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > To clarify the routing table issue, I'll explain what I meant by that. > If I type "telnet 10.1.1.1", I would not expect telnet to consult a DNS > server to do a reverse lookup on that IP. I would expect it to consult > the routing table, decide that 10.1.1.1 was either on a local subnet, > through a remote gateway, or through the default route, and route my TCP > SYN packet accordingly. By mentioning routing, I only meant that to ME, > that was the logical step after receiving an IP address. Had I give it a > host name, I would have EXPECTED it to consult DNS, and then route to the > resulting IP accordingly. I hope this sheds some light on what I meant. Well, it could be telnetd doing the reverse lookup, or tcp wrappers etc.. I personnally fixed this stuff when I had a dialup my making my named.boot file change depending on if my link is up or down.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message