Re: Slow server due to reverse lookup

[Patrick Colbeck <pat.colbeck@bashq.org>]

I don't want to setup DNS as the possible range of IP addresses is
huge.  I would have to add entries for all the RFC 1918 address space,
that would be hundreds of thousands of records to add to a DNS
server. This is a lab where network engineers replicate routing issues
or test new routers/switches etc so networks come and go all the time
and they can be anywhere within private address space.

Thanks

Pat
>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

    Ethan> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:38:37AM +0100, Patrick Colbeck
    Ethan> 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 ?

    Ethan> why don't you just setup dns?  it would make your (and
    Ethan> everyone elses) life alot easier.

    Ethan> -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/