From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 6 15:21:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF3037B423 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 15:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([64.228.153.241]) by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010506222118.DXMS15234.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 6 May 2001 18:21:18 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f46MIhN34411; Sun, 6 May 2001 18:18:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <002501c0d67a$1e1b6580$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Doug Wilson" , References: Subject: Re: Need snappy telnet service (revisited) Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:15:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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