From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 5 10: 2:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from excelsystems.com (h24-70-196-170.sbm.shawcable.net [24.70.196.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B08637B41B for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:02:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from home [24.70.196.175] by excelsystems.com [127.0.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.PRO.v5.0.1.R) for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:55:27 -0800 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20020405095217.00c912f0@192.168.0.64> X-Sender: hunter#pop.islandnet.com@192.168.0.64 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:59:24 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Marc Hunter Subject: Newbie: Telnet and FTP reverse DNS Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-MDRemoteIP: 24.70.196.175 X-Return-Path: hunter@hunter.net X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am continually plagued by somewhat random delays due to reverse lookup issues with the standard FreeBSD telnet and ftp (sometimes the ISP DNS returns promptly, sometimes it does the timeout thing...). Every answer I can fine online to this question seems to be: Set up a DNS or tweak your hosts file. I'm not interested in running a DNS, and it's a pain to maintain the hosts file... So my question is: Why does FTP and Telnet go through this whole rigamarole? It seems to me (in my ignorance) to be redundant and unnecessary seeing as it lets me in whether it succeeds or fails.... Shouldn't this just be disabled? Or at very least, shouldn't there be an easy configuration option to disable it? Maybe there is and I just can't find it? Rgds, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message