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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!goliath.camtech.com.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!hart From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: BIND drives me nuts Date: 7 Nov 94 03:59:29 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 47 Message-ID: <hart.784180769@apanix.apana.org.au> References: <Cyv8Bz.vL@luva.lb.bawue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) writes: >I have here on the local side a mini network composed of only two >systems: setha (BSDI-1.1) and luva (FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 & patches). >Both are connected to remote system nadia via sporadic slip con- >nections between luva and nadia. > local setha <=====ed0=====> local luva <-----sl0-----> remote nadia >I have to configure either the resolver or named (preferred) in >order to connect to the outside world (via slip). >Now the problem: if the slip connection isn't active (99 % of the >time) a simple `telnet setha' needs between 2..3 minutes to be >built because either the resolver or the nameserver are queried >endless times before the connaect is actually made, grrrrr. >Is there any workaround? (Please no answers like connect forever >to the world :-) /etc/host.conf: hosts bind /etc/hosts (on both) x.y.z.1 setha x.y.z.2 luva x.y.z.3 nadia whatever else you want also :) This will check /etc/hosts first for name lookups, then bind. Not sure if this works for reverse mappings.... *shrug* Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |