From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 17 10:26:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23755 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA23744 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tom@localhost) by misery.sdf.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05593; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:46:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:46:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Gary Clark II cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange error on Freefall In-Reply-To: <199609171514.KAA16313@main.gbdata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Gary Clark II wrote: > hello, > > I was on FreeFall earlier and ran into the following problem: > > freefall:gclarkii# ping srimain.srisoft.com > PING srimain.srisoft.com (207.90.208.225): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 207.90.208.225: icmp_seq=0 ttl=238 time=188.854 ms > 64 bytes from 207.90.208.225: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=209.467 ms > ^C > --- srimain.srisoft.com ping statistics --- > 3 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 33% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max = 188.854/199.160/209.467 ms > > freefall:gclarkii# telnet srimain.srisoft.com > Trying 198.66.103.161... > freefall:gclarkii# > > Why does the DNS return both variables consistly, one to ping > and the other to telnet and rlogin??? > > Any ideas? > > Gary That system has two addresses. The DNS server will return the address list in a different order for each query. ping uses the first address in the list. telnet tries to be smart and tries to search the list for an address that will work. Tom