Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:10:16 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Cc: fee@tetrahome.tetranet.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@sentex.net Subject: Re: resolving ips? Message-ID: <199809251810.LAA04947@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980925113946.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from Daniel O'Connor at "Sep 25, 98 11:39:46 am"
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> > 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
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