From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 10:26:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from techpower.net (techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A39C151AF for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03375; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:25:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:25:54 -0500 (EST) From: hometeam To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: "Paul T. Root" , dcs@newsguy.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP problem In-Reply-To: <19990326194737.A81739@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG makes no differance using the ip address there will be no lookup of the name to map. On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 10:58:51AM -0500, hometeam wrote: > > > > Yeah that why I suggested connecting with the ip address of the site. > > > > No, this won't help in the case of DNS reverse lookup problem. > The server you're connecting to is doing reverse lookup on the > client IP. If the DNS is shut down, it will block the connection > until timeout has expired. > > A quick check if this is a DNS related problem might be to turn off > the DNS support on the server you're trying to connect to. > This can be done by editing /etc/host.conf on *BSD, or whatever > appropriate for another OS. > > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the > ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank > +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine > > http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message