From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 25 11:11:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12349 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:11:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.5.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12342 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3a) id LAA04947; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:10:16 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199809251810.LAA04947@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: resolving ips? To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:10:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: fee@tetrahome.tetranet.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@sentex.net In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Connor at "Sep 25, 98 11:39:46 am" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > If I type "telnet 10.1.1.1", I would not expect telnet to consult a DNS > > server to do a reverse lookup on that IP. I would expect it to consult > > the routing table, decide that 10.1.1.1 was either on a local subnet, > > through a remote gateway, or through the default route, and route my TCP > > SYN packet accordingly. The telnet client is doing the DNS lookup (actually, a call to gethostbyname() ) in order to be able to display the remote host's name when you do the "status" command. It probably uses the hostname in other places as well... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message