Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:15:54 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Doug Wilson" <want_2_learn_freebsd@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need snappy telnet service (revisited) Message-ID: <002501c0d67a$1e1b6580$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <DAV61mcK8r6beUzmRf600003f62@hotmail.com>
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> I am now ready to work out my sssslllllooooowwwwwwww ftp, mail, telnet > login. It takes about 90 seconds--very annoying. > > The 1st time I brought it up, the list suggested that this is caused by > reverse dns. I would like to turn off this feature cuz it makes this server > useless. How? Reverse-DNS is a neccessary part of any IP-based networking system. > The server is in dns, but the machines that connect to it are not--nor will > they ever be--they are dhcp assigned ips. So? Any IP can have a reverse-DNS entry configured for it. The fact that the hosts are DHCP configured doesn't change things. You need to have named properly configured; if you've got it set up for "forward" DNS, then it's not too hard to set it up for reverse DNS. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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