From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 13 22:23:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA09490 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:23:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA09480 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:23:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA18200; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:22:37 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA23638; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:22:36 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id GAA26576; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:56:38 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512140556.GAA26576@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: loopback and multicast messed up on /etc/sysconfig ? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:56:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, mango@communique.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512140505.QAA27518@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Dec 14, 95 04:05:19 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Dawes wrote: > > >> Are you using /etc/resolv.conf? Does your nameserver respond to the > >> reverse query for 224.0.0.0? Did you wait 45 seconds for the DNS > >> request timing out? > >I _never_ realized it might be a multicast thing .... > > I've seen this too. I added something equivalent to > localhost.rev for multicast. I'm mirroring MCAST.NET. and 224.IN-ADDR.ARPA. :-} -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)