On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:26:18 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to add to this, I was using the IP address too and it was very > slow. This was also on a local network. After adding the lines to my > host files, it was fast no matter whether I used the name or the IP > address. I still don't understand why this matters tho. > > Just a thought. > > Dale
I am guessing your /etc/nsswitch.conf says: hosts: files dns in this case, the /etc/hosts file will be consulted before the dns. If you provide an IP address, it will probably want to do a reverse lookup to the name (for .ssh/known-hosts for one); if provided a domain name, it will have to look it up. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
