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From: Dan Debertin <airboss@bitstream.net>
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Subject: Re: Slow netstat -r printout
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It's taking so long because it's trying to do a DNS resolution of every IP
address that it prints. My guess is that @Home uses some non-registered
RFC1918 address space for its clients, so those addresses will never
resolve, and will take forever not doing so. The -n flag disables DNS
resolution, which is why it's so much faster.

Dan Debertin
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