Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:15:29 +0100 From: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable Message-ID: <20001106171529.T21642@dataloss.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011061626170.271-100000@oT.o8.com>; from AnEra@dds.nl on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:11:02PM %2B0100 References: <200011052249.eA5Mn0S61355@grumpy.dyndns.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011061626170.271-100000@oT.o8.com>
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:11:02PM +0100, Maarten van Schie wrote: [snip] > > Whether it *needs* to do a DNS or not is beside the point. The > > conclusion is that it appears to be doing a DNS lookup. Could be for > > nothing more than an IP address of the local machine. > > That will be for it's NIC's MAC adress. MAC addresses don't appear in DNS. IPs do. [snip] > Yesterday someone told me to tcpdump and see what goes on between my box > and others. It seemed to me that my DNSes are having trouble fetching > my NIC's MAC adress..in other words that it's malfunctioning. DNSes don't do MAC, again. Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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