Re: Why does printing the route table take so long?

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

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