Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:07:15 +0200 From: boink <lordboink@gmail.com> To: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arp -a takes 40 secs to display cached MAC addresses. Is thisnormal? Message-ID: <73cb07950604040907s5186a763r591fa087fd44c54e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <003101c6577d$3d0d05f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <73cb07950604031506w4236d418wdb7f6b790e7ebca1@mail.gmail.com> <003101c6577d$3d0d05f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Matt, You're absolutely right - thank you. Best wishes, boink On 04/04/06, Matt Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "boink" <lordboink@gmail.com> > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 6:06 PM > Subject: arp -a takes 40 secs to display cached MAC addresses. Is > thisnormal? > > > Dear FreeBSD, > > # uname -a > FreeBSD MyFBSD.int.vir 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 > 09:36:13 UTC 2005 > root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > # /usr/bin/time -h arp -a > MyFBSD (10.1.2.1) at 00:00:f8:10:6c:8a on dc0 permanent [ethernet] > MyFirewall (10.1.2.254) at 00:0d:b9:11:a5:b9 on dc0 [ethernet] > ? (10.1.2.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on dc0 permanent [ethernet] > 40.22s real 0.00s user 0.00s sys > ^ > ...where: > > ---- > > arp is attempting to do a reverse-DNS lookup on 10.1.2.255. No answer is > received from your DNS server in the allowable time-out interval, so it > displays the name as '?'. > > Redo the same test using 'arp -a -n' and you'll see it complete > immediately. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > >
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