Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:57:43 +0000 From: Jamie Heckford <heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic? Message-ID: <0012151100330S.01649@freefire.psi-domain.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20001215105104.A73285@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012151043130.10436-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <20001215105104.A73285@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, you wrote: > 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. > You could also manually add them to /etc/hosts - but this will be a bit tedious when you have a lot of machines. Maybe list IP addresses in /etc/hosts.lpd instead of hostnames? This could cause alot of reverse lookups though. > David. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Jamie Heckford Chief Network Engineer Psi-Domain - Innovative Linux Solutions. Ask Us How. ===================================== email: heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk web: http://www.psi-domain.co.uk/ tel: +44 (0)1737 789 246 fax: +44 (0)1737 789 245 mobile: +44 (0)7779 646 529 ===================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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