In article <20010410083856.A25740@kosh.hut.fi> you wrote: > When there is no default route and thus your machine typically doesn't > have access to a name server, ping will run happily without trying to > resolve the IP addresses it sees. Actually it will try, but the sending of the DNS request package will immediatelly return with "no route to host". Therefore the DNS Timeout does not apply. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
