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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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