Reverse name lookups

[Matt Alexander]

Errr...  but I guess my solution would disable forward lookups too...  my
bad.
~M


On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Matt Alexander wrote:

> If Linux is like Solaris, then you should be able to simply remove the
> "dns" entry in your /etc/nsswitch.conf for the "hosts" line.  I haven't
> tried this, but I would hope it works the same way.
> ~M
>
> On 29 Aug 2001, Nathan England wrote:
>
> >
> > This may seem dumb.  I've looked everywhere, tried many different
> > things, and I can't get it to work..
> > Is there anyway to stop linux from doing a reverse name lookup?
> >
> > I have a local caching bind system, and it's working for everything..
> > Here's my problem.
> >
> > While I'm at work I constantly check all my email from my server at
> > home, but everytime Evolution (or anything) checks the mail my server at
> > home does the reverse name lookup on my IP from work.  My employer feels
> > it neccessary to disable the reverse name lookup on our outbound IP
> > here, so there is nothing I can do from work side.
> > Only thing I can figure is disabling it on my machine.  But after many
> > hours of trying this and that, I can't figure it out.. Even when I added
> > my work IP to my servers hosts file it did nothing..
> >
> > <wimper>...help...</wimper>
> > I also tried the compressed ssh tunnell, which worked great becaue then
> > everything was secure, but it was still slow, and caused Evolution to
> > freak out a lot..  Since I have almost 2000 emails just from the plug on
> > my imap, evo was going nuts..  But if I don't use the compressed
> > tunnell, it works much better.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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