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From: Mike Grupenhoff <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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On Tue, 27 Jun 1995, David Greenman wrote:

> >I'm using the tcsh-6.0.5 shell, which says about itself:
> 
> 
>    I think tcsh is trying to do a DNS query of some sort. I've noticed the
> same problem whenever my net connection is down.

Yeah, it does a ton of them.  However, the delay is only noticable if you run
named locally.  Otherwise, each query immediately returns with "no route to
host" instead of timeing out. 

mike