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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2000 02:24:15 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        oliverko@dialup.nacamar.de
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why everytime a lookuo to the nameserver ???
Message-ID:  <391a197b.855437654@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.957933411.858912807@news.sentex.net>
References:  <SEN.957933411.858912807@news.sentex.net>

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On 10 May 2000 00:36:51 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>my freebsd box makes every time I try to connect (telnet) to a host in my
>private LAN a lookup to the nameserver (nameserver of my ISP). I configured
>/etc/host.conf with the order: hosts bind. Why doesn't use the system the
>/etc/hosts file? The machines I tried to connected to are listet in this
>file.

Do you know what its trying to look up ?  Either do a tcpdump, or run a
copy of bind locally, adjust your /etc/resolv.conf and issue a
ndc querylog
and watch /var/log/daemon
to see what its looking up.


>Is there a possibility to switch off the IPv6 support?

Yes, take it out of your kernel config.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers 
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)


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