Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:37:42 -0600 From: Craig Boston <craig@yekse.gank.org> To: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why does Xfce 4.2 have to query a DNS ? Message-ID: <20050314203741.GB13267@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <8cb27cbf050314115632893e85@mail.gmail.com> References: <8cb27cbf05031211126ca5f67d@mail.gmail.com> <20050314183452.GA13267@nowhere> <8cb27cbf050314115632893e85@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:56:03PM -0700, Jon Drews wrote: > I have this: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.silbsd.org notebook2.silbsd.org notebook2 Hmm, that's really odd then. Both getaddrinfo and gethostbyname should use hosts first and then fall back on DNS if that fails. Perhaps it's querying for some other name besides your own. Is it possible to run tcpdump on the ppp interface to see what name it's trying to resolve? Craig
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