George Gallen on 21 Mar 2006 14:26:27 -0000


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RE: [PLUG] DNS question


Good, because I was couldn't figure for the life of me, how
that answer fit in. I read between every line and it still
didn't make any sense.

Other than "Who's there", which kinda goes along with DNS....

George

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Chris S
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 6:05 PM
> To: 'Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] DNS question
> 
> 
> Doh!! Sorry guys I replied to the wrong email.
> 
> Chris S
> chris@jynx.net
> www.jynx.net
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Chris S
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 5:59 PM
> To: 'Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] DNS question
> 
> Something that knocks ;)
> 
> Chris S
> chris@jynx.net
> www.jynx.net
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Muth
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 3:56 PM
> To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] DNS question
> 
> On 3/20/06, George Gallen <ggallen@slackinc.com> wrote:
> >
> > So why would there be a DNS query if it's supposed to check 
> /etc/hosts
> > first,
> >   and I know the IP in /etc/hosts matches 
> IP-ADDRESS-OF-SERVER, since
> >   the ftp lpgeorge works, just takes a few seconds longer
> >
> 
> I would guess that (for reasons unknown) an extra DNS query is being
> performed.  I assume there are no search directives in host.conf?
> 
> I think the quickest way to figure out what's going on would be to run
> "tcpdump -n" on the client machine (-n disables DNS lookups) and see
> what's actually happening on the network.  Comparing the results of
> "ftp ip" versus "ftp hostname" should show what else is being done.
> 
> -- Doug
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