Re: Something very curious.

Jake (jake@ams.com)
Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:16:27 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Chris Gauthier wrote:

> always get a mixture of IPs and names the first time I type a show sess.
> However, the second time I type a show sess, all the ips seem to have
> resolved.

There is a timeout and if it cant resolve in that time, it just goes with
what its got so far.

> For example, this is what I get when I get on one of my pm11s and do the
> first show sess:
>
> Port User Host/Inet/Dest Type Dir Status Start
> Idle
> ---- --------------- ---------------- ------- --- ------------- ------
> ------
> S0 rcwjacks 205.200.13.199 Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 40
> 0
> S1 gillies 205.200.13.193 Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 36
> 0
> S2 - - Log/Net In IDLE 0
> 0
> S3 rbujold 205.200.13.198 Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 34
> 0
> S4 - - Log/Net In IDLE 0
> 0
> S5 campbell 205.200.13.194 Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 32
> 0
>
>
>
> Now this is the second time I've done it, which is took me just the amount
> of time to do a cut and paste, plus type this sentence :
>
>
> Port User Host/Inet/Dest Type Dir Status Start
> Idle
> ---- --------------- ---------------- ------- --- ------------- ------
> ------
> S0 rcwjacks pm208.icenter.ne Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 41
> 0
> S1 gillies pm202.icenter.ne Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 37
> 0
> S2 - - Log/Net In IDLE 0
> 0
> S3 rbujold pm207.icenter.ne Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 35
> 0
> S4 - - Log/Net In IDLE 0
> 0
> S5 campbell pm203.icenter.ne Netwrk In ESTABLISHED 33
> 0
>
>
> Everything has resolved fine.
>
>
> I don't think it can be a comOS specific problem, since it seems to happen
> with the pm2ers as well.
>
> As far as I can see, this isn't causing any network havoc, but if somebody
> can explain this, I would be more than happy to listen.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Chris
> ICenterNet
>
>

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