From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 18:05:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA06957 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 18:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA06948 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 18:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA12548 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 09:05:05 +0800 (WST) Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:12:08 GMT From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: Subject: Re: Routing advice Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <96Oct13.194738pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) writes: > In message 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: > > - 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 -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD, Free Unix for your PC | mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+