From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 20:37:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F5516A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:37:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [69.55.238.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3512243D41 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:37:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from craig@yekse.gank.org) Received: by ion.gank.org (mail, from userid 1001) id CB5DF2B753; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:37:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:37:42 -0600 From: Craig Boston To: Jon Drews Message-ID: <20050314203741.GB13267@nowhere> Mail-Followup-To: Craig Boston , Jon Drews , FreeBSD Ports References: <8cb27cbf05031211126ca5f67d@mail.gmail.com> <20050314183452.GA13267@nowhere> <8cb27cbf050314115632893e85@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8cb27cbf050314115632893e85@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Why does Xfce 4.2 have to query a DNS ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:37:46 -0000 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