Re: Slow server due to reverse lookup
On Monday 11 June 2001 05:38, Patrick Colbeck wrote:
> I am assuming that the server is doing a reverse lookup on all
> incoming tcp conections. Since the test lab has no DNS and the
> machines can have an ip address in a range that covers several
> thousand addresses (its a claa B network) I really don't want to type
> all the ip addresses into the hosts file with dummy names. Is there
> anyway to turn of the reverse lookup and make life easier as this is a
> secure network not connected to the Internet ?
You probably want to take dns out of /etc/host.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Both have good man pages that will explain what you need to do. You might
also want to set up NIS.
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