Re: arp -a takes 40 secs to display cached MAC addresses. Is thisnormal?
Matt, You're absolutely right - thank you. Best wishes, boink On 04/04/06, Matt Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: boink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 6:06 PM Subject: arp -a takes 40 secs to display cached MAC addresses. Is thisnormal? Dear FreeBSD, # uname -a FreeBSD MyFBSD.int.vir 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 # /usr/bin/time -h arp -a MyFBSD (10.1.2.1) at 00:00:f8:10:6c:8a on dc0 permanent [ethernet] MyFirewall (10.1.2.254) at 00:0d:b9:11:a5:b9 on dc0 [ethernet] ? (10.1.2.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on dc0 permanent [ethernet] 40.22s real 0.00s user 0.00s sys ^ ...where: arp is attempting to do a reverse-DNS lookup on 10.1.2.255. No answer is received from your DNS server in the allowable time-out interval, so it displays the name as '?'. Redo the same test using 'arp -a -n' and you'll see it complete immediately. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: arp -a takes 40 secs to display cached MAC addresses. Is thisnormal?
- Original Message - From: boink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 6:06 PM Subject: arp -a takes 40 secs to display cached MAC addresses. Is thisnormal? Dear FreeBSD, # uname -a FreeBSD MyFBSD.int.vir 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 # /usr/bin/time -h arp -a MyFBSD (10.1.2.1) at 00:00:f8:10:6c:8a on dc0 permanent [ethernet] MyFirewall (10.1.2.254) at 00:0d:b9:11:a5:b9 on dc0 [ethernet] ? (10.1.2.255) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff on dc0 permanent [ethernet] 40.22s real 0.00s user 0.00s sys ^ ...where: arp is attempting to do a reverse-DNS lookup on 10.1.2.255. No answer is received from your DNS server in the allowable time-out interval, so it displays the name as '?'. Redo the same test using 'arp -a -n' and you'll see it complete immediately. -- Matt Emmerton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
