Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:13:59 -1000 From: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: How to get around failing reverse DNS lookups? Message-ID: <34FA4016.1536@aloha.com>
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I run a caching-only DNS on Windows NT server at work to speed up frequently used lookups, because our "real" DNS servers are distant and slow (long story omitted). This particular server is not registered by its actual name, although the IP address does belong to me (another long story). Certain operations such as FTP connections to my FreeBSD box are slow because of this -- the inability to perform a reverse lookup (IP to host name). I have placed an entery in the hosts file, but it does not help. Short of fully registering my server, and without violating Internet policy, is there a way to improve on this? My only guess is to manually load an entery for the missing server in the DNS table, but I don't think that is possible when running WinNT DNS in cache-only mode. -- Gary Dunn Knowledge Tree Honolulu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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