On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 08:56, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I am pretty new to networking. I have three machines. One, bigdog, is > acting as a gateway/firewall. > > I am working from sage. The routing table is: > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > default bigdog.my.home 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > > When I try to ssh to bigdog, there is about a 45 second delay - but > only when bigdog is not connected to the net. > > I presume that there is an attempt to do a DNS lookup. My host.conf > file specifies: > order hosts, bind
Sounds a reasonable assumption. To test it, put an entry in /etc/hosts for the machine you're ssh'ing from. Greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996
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