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From: Maarten van Schie <AnEra@dds.nl>
To: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.net>
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Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote:

> > > 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.
> 

To me the dump looked like they do, so thanx for the correction.

> [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.
> 

Understood :)

But this doesn't take me any further down the road, so any suggestions are
welcome, ofcourse.

Maarten.



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