Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:22:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching off address lookups Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960904232137.529J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <322DA235.2336@nation-net.com>
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On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Is there a way of switching off address lookups to cut down on traffic, > epecially in httpd and any other daemons/services? Apache has an option to explicity turn off reverse lookups. Don't know about other daemons. You can help matters by running a local caching nameserver. If you are using resolv.conf now, it'll help out by not forcing repeated lookups for the same address. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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