From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 9:31:11 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 09:31:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glitch.crosswinds.net (glitch.crosswinds.net [209.208.163.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538E737B401 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:31:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from lexx.my.domain ([195.110.170.186]) by glitch.crosswinds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA51872 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:31:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john253@crosswinds.net) From: John Murphy To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disabling reverse DNS Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:32:43 +0000 Organization: not a lot.org Reply-To: john@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While testing a win95 client program (for a friend) which sends udp packets to IPv4 addresses, I find that my FreeBSD-4.1 gateway always tries to lookup the symbolic names by DNS, or tcpdump shows that it does. How can I disable this, preferably on the single port it uses? Thanks again, John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message