From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 15 2:51: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 02:51:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 618A237B400 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 02:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 15 Dec 2000 10:51:05 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:51:04 +0000 From: David Malone To: Konrad Heuer Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic? Message-ID: <20001215105104.A73285@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:54:43AM +0100 Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:54:43AM +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote: > For a heavily loaded printer server (as mine is) this seems not be a good > idea ... but maybe there's a good reason to to this? I presume this is so that you can list machine aliases in the hosts.lpd file, and to avoid issues with machines that may have more than one interface. One solution would be to run a caching name server on the print server and point resolv.conf at 127.0.0.1. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message