Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:12:08 GMT From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing advice Message-ID: <DzHxw9.HE1.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> References: <Dz8LAw.LrF.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
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In article <96Oct13.194738pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>,
fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) writes:
> In message <Dz8LAw.LrF.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> you write:
>>Alternatively, I have had defaultroute=10.0.0.5 but then some
>>X11 applications take 90 seconds to start (they seem to be
>>waiting on some network info).
>
> They are probably trying to resolve your (or some) IP address. You should
> either:
>
<snip>
> - run a local caching name server, so that it can respond to name service
> requests even when the network is down, and point your resolv.conf to
> that server first.
Just a follow-up on my earlier posting. I did as suggested and installed
a cacheing name-server on the gateway host. This had the added advantage
of actually seeing what addresses are being resolved.
knews - This program attempts to resolve your domain-name and checks
if it exists. It does this so that it can build up the
correct email header in posts. Installing a local nameserver
didn't help here - because the local nameserver just times out
when trying to resolve the name! What I ended up doing was
recompiling knews so that it doesn't try to resolve the domain
name.
netscape - Was trying to resolve my proxy-server settings. Did get fixed
with a local nameserver.
Is there any way of getting named to return immediately if there is no
route to the superior nameservers it polls? I might have a look at the
code myself and see if there is some easy way to do this.
Rgds/mark
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