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Date:      27 Oct 1999 21:17:01 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: w program output.
Message-ID:  <86bt9kmzxe.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: FreeBSD Mailing list's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:01:02 %2B0200 (CEST)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910271057140.19514-100000@righi.dhs.org>

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FreeBSD Mailing list <bsd@righi.dhs.org> writes:

> Hello, I have 3.3-STABLE kernel on 3.3-RELEASE system.
> I have noticed the following behaviour on my system.
> 
> If I issue the w command many times the FROM field displays to me the host
> from which the users are connected but it happens often that the w output
> hangs for some second and instead of the hostname the IP number is
> displayed like if the w command is unable to find the hostname
> from the IP address

Faulty DNS setup?  Using a name-server that takes too long to reply to you?
Just guessing...

Using the "-n" option will inhibit automatic DNS lookups, and only print IP
addresses.  But I doubt if this is what you want.

Trying to make your DNS server respond faster seems like a better thing.

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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