Reverse name lookups

[Nathan England]

On 30 Aug 2001 00:46:41 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 29. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Nathan England so:
> 
> > Okay, I will try this, but do I need to reboot the whole server, (which
> > I'd rather not) or just -HUP something? Or nothign at all?
> 
> Make sure that files is before dns. No need to -HUP anything as that file is
> live.
> 
> What's your /etc/hosts entry look like?



127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.1             carthage.the-arcanum.org carthage
192.168.1.12            soulblighter.the-arcanum.org soulblighter
192.168.1.13            deadsoul.the-arcanum.org deadsoul
192.168.1.15            byzantium.the-arcanum.org byzantium

4.22.48.30              speedfam.com    speedfam

but as I don't actually know what the resolving name of 4.22.48.30 is I
just put speedfam in there as the name of the company.  Maybe that's
screwing something up as well.  But with that in there it makes no
difference. 
I dialed up once from the outside and tried to ftp into my box, and that
took a little while too, but I thought it was because I was dialed up,
maybe I need to do more research, it could be my firewall.  But i don't
think so, because even dialed up, it still only took about 4 seconds
after 'connected to ftp.the-arcanum.org' whereas at work it can
sometimes take up to 30 seconds.



> 
> Maybe setup a zone for that particular hosts IP and serve up the reverse
> yourself :).

That might be an idea.  I'd rather not resort to that right away though.



> 
> > On 29 Aug 2001 10:14:12 -0700, 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.
> 
> Yup, same as solaris. As you noted, removing dns probably isn't a good idea
> :).
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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