At 09:13 PM 3/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:00:44 Roy wrote:
> >At 07:27 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >>The simplest thing to do is ad the remote devices to the server's hosts
> >>file.
> >
> >That kind of defeats the purpose of DNS . Thanks for the thought though.
>
>In general, yes, but in this case it just reduces the time needed to resolve
>the names of known hosts. When there are a lot of connections involved, why
>hold things up to resolve the name of a known host? Your machine is probably
>checking the hosts file first anyway, why not let it succeed?
Anthony
I put the records in the hosts file but still no good. If I do an nslookup
on these ip's it works fine (even before I put them in the hosts file). The
must be something in syslogd that does the lookup but it stopped doing it
and I can't find anything in the man.
Roy
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