Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 23:00:47 +0100 (CET) From: Maarten van Schie <AnEra@dds.nl> To: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange latency? Was: 4.1.1-Stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011062257140.271-100000@oT.o8.com> In-Reply-To: <20001106171529.T21642@dataloss.net>
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > > Whether it *needs* to do a DNS or not is beside the point. The > > > conclusion is that it appears to be doing a DNS lookup. Could be for > > > nothing more than an IP address of the local machine. > > > > That will be for it's NIC's MAC adress. > > MAC addresses don't appear in DNS. IPs do. > To me the dump looked like they do, so thanx for the correction. > [snip] > > Yesterday someone told me to tcpdump and see what goes on between my box > > and others. It seemed to me that my DNSes are having trouble fetching > > my NIC's MAC adress..in other words that it's malfunctioning. > > DNSes don't do MAC, again. > Understood :) But this doesn't take me any further down the road, so any suggestions are welcome, ofcourse. Maarten. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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