-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote: > >> Note, this was a bug, and not the expected/desirable behavior. > > > > I'm not sure you could convince RH of that, but agreed... ;-) > > Just because it wasn't expected by you and Paul does not mean it is a bug. > Red Hat isn't the only distro that does this, and the ones that do, have > been doing it that way a long time (in Linux terms). :-)
Yes, which is all well and fine, except when: a) DNS is broken and b) you're not expecting it. The problem is that if DNS is broken, you get really wierd behavior which does not reflect reality. The ping times increase by some multiple of the DNS server's timeout, when in fact the host is responding in under 1 second, as demonstrated by re-running ping -n. I DO consider this a bug. Or at least, undesireable. It leads you to believe that you have problems that you don't have. > > > The real problem though, is that (from the behavior I observed) it seems > > to try to resolve the address in a loop. > > It is quite possible for the "ping" command to receive replies from > multiple IP addresses. Yes, but not if you ping a SPECIFIC one. Or at least, it shouldn't be. This should only be possible if you do a broadcast ping. But it still shouldn't result in ridiculous, non-real ping times. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Z0MvdjdlQoHP510RAqSoAJwK4L7bw0nfagcyK2XG2p50ZxcOywCgmLmy 1mDi/jFLPTcHGyeIPQASeeM= =OvK0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
