From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 16:50:14 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 97ABA14C29 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a113.otenet.gr [195.167.115.113]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA25723 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 02:49:46 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (qmail 9164 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Oct 1999 23:51:41 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: w program output. References: From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 30 Oct 1999 01:51:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: FreeBSD Mailing list's message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:15:55 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: <864sf9k9o2.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 17 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: > I thought that the system could have a small cache for resolving > the internet addresses instead of querying the DNS every time an user > is issuing a w or who command. I am not sure if the resolver code in libc does this. It can be done though, if you install a private name server, and have *it* as your first DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf If you have it ask your ISP's name server for the "." zone, you can also take advantage of that named's cache. I think so. Correct me someone if I'm making some mistake here. -- 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