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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

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