From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 6 8:16:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dataloss.net (massive.dataloss.net [212.189.232.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAB7E37B479 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28769 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Nov 2000 16:15:29 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:15:29 +0100 From: Peter van Dijk To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable Message-ID: <20001106171529.T21642@dataloss.net> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200011052249.eA5Mn0S61355@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from AnEra@dds.nl on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:11:02PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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