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Jeffrey J. Mountin (sysop@mixcom.com)
Sun, 13 Apr 1997 02:54:27 -0500

At 05:40 PM 4/12/97 -0500, Chris Gauthier wrote:
>This is another thing I've noticed lately and perhaps somebody can help
>me. Quite often my portmasters simply stop resolving IPs. I really don't
>know how I would go about finding out what causes this.
>
>It seems to happen almost exclusivly on our pm11s, which is probably
>understandable since I have all 10 ports going at 57600 (which I know is a
>nono, but..)
>
>Anybody have an answer/explanation/fix for me?

FAQ and normal behavior if it times out (3 sec?).

If it bothers you, you can change from DNS to NIS and then it will not try
to resolve, which IMHO is better. Why hit your DNS server(s) for no real
good reason. In RADIUS clients, use IPs not hostnames.

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Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator
jeff@mixcom.net

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