Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 07:29:16 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Kercher <mike@synwork.com> To: Thamer Al-Herbish <shadows@whitefang.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Subject: Re: netstat -r Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970102072837.3525A-100000@synwork.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970102132024.394E-100000@localhost>
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Another option is to run 'netstat -rn' instead. This will return IP's
instead of FQDN's. :)
Mike
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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Thamer Al-Herbish wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote:
>
> > > My Petium 120 is running FreeBSD 2.1. When I run the command netstat -r from
> > > the command line with user ppp running, it takes this command several minutes
> > > at best to complete. Why does it take so long? What is is doing that is taking
> > > so much time(name lookup?)? Is there any way to improve the performance?
> > > Kirk :)
>
> Actually there is.. but.. it might cause such tools to be bloated. A
> while back I wrote a tool which had to display X number of hostnames in
> its output, possible hundreds taken out of IP addresses, I simply
> implemented an asynchoronous lookup to do it. By writing out the query
> packets and shooting it off. (This was done after it did its original job).
>
> Sadly alot of other applications like "netscape" on UNIX-like OSs seem to
> have this problem, they'll hang up on a gethostbyname() till the lookup
> is complete, this is even more annoying on a GUI app.
>
> I had a look at the res library but I didnt find any "real" asynchronous
> lookup functions, would be nice if one was around.. like
> async_gethostbyname(...original arguments.., SIGUSR1), where it would
> signal when it got it.
>
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