From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 22:59:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA09785 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 22:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA09778 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 22:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA18297; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:59:44 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:59:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709080559.XAA18297@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: un-neccessary DNS lookups (was Re: Divert sockets..) In-Reply-To: <199709071950.MAA24121@usr07.primenet.com> References: <199709071500.QAA23059@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <199709071950.MAA24121@usr07.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > And there's the annoying localhost DNS lookup, even though host.conf > has "hosts" first, and the name of the machine I'm rlogin'ing into > is in /etc/hosts (it's myself). It triggers the PPP dial anyway, > and I think that should only happen for non-local hosts. Sounds like something's misconfigured, since as we all say, "it works for me, and the 5 other co-workers whose boxes I've setup". Do you have localhost, localhost.domain, host, and host.domain all in /etc/hosts? What does /etc/resolv.conf look like? Nate