Yup your right :) thanks On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 11:02, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Mar 04 2004, at 01:19, Entelin was caught saying: > > Why does printing the route table take so long? Something thats always > > bothered me a bit. > > When you run route with the default command line options, it attempts > to do a reverse DNS lookup of the IP addresses for the gateway > hosts. If you are on a private network without a DHCP server to provide > that information, it has to wait until the DNS query timesout. > Run 'route -n' to disable the DNS queries and it will run much > faster. This works for many of the network tools (netstat, traceroute, > etc). > > ~Deepak -- Entelin --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss