Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:03:37 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Robert Zagarello <bzag0@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <200510051103.37212.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20051004153742.28939.qmail@web53803.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051004153742.28939.qmail@web53803.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:07 am, Robert Zagarello wrote: > When the DNS can't be reached you need to have the > server's host name in your local-LAN accessing > client's hosts file. Either way, the client hosts > file will be checked first before DNS access (this is > true for Windows OSs at least), so because of this you > can use any name in your local client, i.e., a NetBIOS > name for example (non-dotted up to 15-character, > etc.). > Of course I have entries in /etc/hosts for both source and destination on both client and destination machines. I don't recall seeing this sort of problem in FreeBSD 4.x so any comparison with Windows seems quite irrelevant. Thanks for trying, Malcolm > BZAG > ================ > > --- Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> wrote: > > I have sytems both at home and at work running > > FreeBSD 5.4 > > ... > > But if the internet connection breaks -- e.g. the > > routers crash > > or the ISP connection fails for some reason then > > trying to ssh > > into the machine from another local machine is a > > problem -- > > either timing out our taking a very very long time. > > > > ... > > > > Now it is my understanding that resolution of host > > names should > > determine from /etc/host.conf and/or > > /etc/nsswitch.conf whether > > to first try /etc/host or the dns server addressed > > by > > /etc/resolv.conf > > > > I believe these should give preference to /etc/hosts > > but > > never-the-less things get stuck when the dns server > > can't be > > reached. > >
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