From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 16:12:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bsd1.ashleyweb.net (bsd1.ashleyweb.net [64.216.81.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161FC37B405 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 16:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thebeast (ash-64-216-81-212.ashleyweb.net [64.216.81.212] (may be forged)) by bsd1.ashleyweb.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g46NBsM15976 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 18:11:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shane@ashleyweb.net) From: "Shane Ashley" To: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: incoming connections Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:13:07 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG does anyone know how to disable FreeBSD from resolving incoming ip addresses, or how to lower the time out so that it will not take a min and a half to give up? simply put I have a SMTP server on one side of a 3 part hardware firewall using an internet ip address. then I have the internal section of the firewall (192.168.0.X) that is connecting to the SMTP server. the SMTP server is not able to resolve the addresses into names and is taking 1 1/2 min. to time out. I have an external dns that the SMTP server can use but I would rather not make unnecessary generic zone entries into the dns box. what can I do? Shane shane@ashleyweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message