Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:45:44 -0800 From: Brian Sobolak <sobolak@mindspring.com> To: Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc@home.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reverse lookup troubleshooting Message-ID: <9727395793.20011121144544@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20011118185446.A846@hostwiththemost> References: <20011118185446.A846@hostwiththemost>
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Hello Sean, Sunday, November 18, 2001, 5:54:46 PM, you wrote: SL> I recently experienced an EXTREME slowdown in logging into my FreeBSD SL> box via SSH. After looking about a bit to try to figure this out, I saw SL> that this is a common problem, and it's usually associated with a problem SL> in doing reverse lookups. It's odd, since it wasn't happening a little SL> while ago on my LAN, but I also noticed it on a Linux box, too. So I SL> added entries for other boxes on the LAN into the /etc/hosts files on SL> the *nix machines and the slowdown went away. Same thing happened to me, and I fixed it the same way. :^) SL> However, I don't know how to really fix the problem...are there good SL> troubleshooting tools for this? I did look around a bit on this, but all SL> I found was some code someone had pasted into an email that was archived. SL> It didn't compile, so that was a dead end for me. The answer to having slow reverse DNS lookups is of course having way for the machines to find each other through DNS. Adding the files to /etc/hosts seems like a perfectly good solution to me. As long as your lan is pretty stable and doesn't change much, this should work fine. Of course you could also run BIND on one of your unix machines. Running DNS internally should fix the problem too, and only require configuration changes in one place. HTH brian -- Got work? http://www.planetshwoop.com/resume/ This is how I think: http://www.planetshwoop.com/blog/ Brian Sobolak sobolak@mindspring.com SL> Anyone with any suggestions? I'm at a loss here. -- Best regards, Brian mailto:sobolak@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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