Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:05:47 -0400 (EDT) From: A boy and his worm gear <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: timeouts on 'netstat' for address->name lookups? Message-ID: <199507201605.MAA03509@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.950720224916.22006K-100000@haywire.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Jul 20, 95 10:56:19 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the world, Peter Wemm had to walk into mine and say: > When doing a 'netstat' or 'netstat -r', sometimes you can get 75 second > timeouts on strange addresses that are not correctly configured in the > dns (such as lame delegations). > > 'w' was recently changed so that it only spends up to two seconds trying > to translate the address in the ut_host field into a name. > > Who would object to me doing the same to netstat? [chop] > Objections? It's 4 lines of code to add. > > -Peter What's wrong with using netstat -rn ? -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~
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