From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 9:35:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.netidea.com (everest.netidea.com [207.194.161.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156C614D9E for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:35:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gregm@netidea.com) Received: from Main (pm162-141.dialup.netidea.com [207.194.162.141]) by everest.netidea.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA23394; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:34:09 -0800 Message-Id: <199903241734.JAA23394@everest.netidea.com> From: gregm@netidea.com To: Dan Busarow Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:36:25 -0800 Subject: Re: speed of DNS Reply-To: Greg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199903241519.HAA11622@everest.netidea.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to the primer this file should handle reverse lookup as well. It is called from named.boot. I'm using the names supplied by the primer for humours sake but changed them for my machines. I'm using 2.2.6- RELEASE if that makes any difference. BTW ftp is slow to connect as well. Thanks for the suggestion ... I learned some more in investigating it 8>) Greg. gregm@netidea.com @ IN SOA my.domain. root.my.domain. ( 961230 ; Serial 3600 ; Refresh 900 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 3600 ) ; Minimum IN NS curly.my.domain. curly.my.domain. IN A 192.168.1.1 # The FreeBSD box larry.my.domain. IN A 192.168.1.2 moe.my.domain. IN A 192.168.1.3 shemp.my.domain. IN A 192.168.1.4 $ORIGIN 1.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA IN NS curly.my.domain. 1 IN PTR curly.my.domain. 2 IN PTR larry.my.domain. 3 IN PTR moe.my.domain. 4 IN PTR shemp.my.domain. $ORIGIN 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA IN NS curly.my.domain. 1 IN PTR localhost.my.domain. > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 gregm@netidea.com wrote: > > I've configured a DNS on my FreeBSD machine using the > > information from the Pedantic PPP tutorial on the freebsd.org > > server. My system closely resembles the system described there > > (three win98 boxes and the FreeBSD machine). I've cross > > referenced with Greg Lehey's descriptions as well. When I was just > > using /etc/hosts connection with telnet was almost transparent but > > now with DNS it takes about two minutes. > The symptoms indicate that you did not set up a reverse zone mapping > your IP addresses to their names. > > Dan > -- > Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 > Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message