On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Zacarías Lecumberri Sánchez wrote: > I have no "nameserver" entries in resolv.conf. > I have the following order in host.conf: > order hosts,bind then this would be more apropriate: order hosts multi off > When I try to telnet or ftp to a IP address which has not a host name the > process hangs and I have to kill it. > It seems obvious that the server daemons won't work unless the IP addresses > can resolve to a name, but I would like to confirm my guesses and I would > also appreciate an explanation for this implementation behaviour. This absolutely depends on the daemon and its configuration. If your daemon is configured to do reverselookups (for logging or access-control), you will have to wait till the lookup times out. Would you have waited some seconds (30 till 300), you would have been able to connect in most setups. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
