[K12OSN] ssh and a wierd problem. . .

[Sudev Barar]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 03:57, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 15:26, Doug Simpson wrote:
> > Another note, Petre says the home webserver is FC1 and don't have the 
> > problem.
> > 
> > Mine at home does hav FC1 and K12LTSP and it don;t have the problem, 
> > either. . .  Just these ones here at the school.
> 
> The servers all make the same DNS query.  Some are getting answers,
> some wait the 2+ minutes for a DNS timeout because of some firewalling
> issue.  It may be an iptables setting on the machine itself or
> it may some external firewall.  More rarely, it might be a
> problem with the DNS server that handles the reverse (number to
> name) lookup but normally if you can contact the server at
> all you'll get a quick failure and firewalls dropping packets
> cause slow timeouts.  A stock k12ltsp install has it's own
> nameserver for the inside subnet so you won't see the problem
> when you connect from there.
Would'nt adding the home machine IP and name in the /etc/hosts file
solve this problem of DNS lookup time?
HTH
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux