From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 13:23:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23484 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:23:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22931 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA09897; Mon, 18 May 1998 13:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 13:21:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: George Vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping inside net In-Reply-To: <199805141339.IAA08999@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 May 1998, George Vagner wrote: > how do i keep my systems from querying the router when i just want to telnet > inside my private net? > > if i telnet to another system on my net the router sends out a request > and the telnet session takes a long time. Because it wants to do a reverse DNS lookup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message