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]"
