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

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
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Entelin <entelin@logicaldreams.net>

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