Reverse name lookups

[Nathan England]

sure glad you thought of that before I did anything...

nathan

On 29 Aug 2001 10:21:18 -0700, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 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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