[H-GEN] Slow telnet and ftp ??

[David Shackleton]

Actually I've worked out a (rather bad hack) workaround for the subnet
reverse IP lookup thing.

I've simply declared in /etc/named.boot a primary record for the subnet in
question, and as my host isn't authoritive for the subnet, there shouldn't
be any dns out there replicating it.  Sped things up amazingly.

On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, David Shackleton wrote:
> Is there a simple way to disable the reverse lookups for a whole subnet,
> without disabling idents completely?
> 
> I don't want our gateway to know the hostnames, and thus none are defined,
> but this is (unsurprisingly) causing delays whilst the lookup times out.
> 
> (...and I'd rather block the whole subnet than declare dummy entries for
> each and every possible address). 

Cheers,
David

Given enough time, sleep, patience, and food, everyone can solve their own
problems...

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