From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 23:22:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24877 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24872 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00639; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:22:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Paul Walsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching off address lookups In-Reply-To: <322DA235.2336@nation-net.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Is there a way of switching off address lookups to cut down on traffic, > epecially in httpd and any other daemons/services? Apache has an option to explicity turn off reverse lookups. Don't know about other daemons. You can help matters by running a local caching nameserver. If you are using resolv.conf now, it'll help out by not forcing repeated lookups for the same address. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major