[Iftop-users] Re: dns resolution

[das@onperfect.com]

ok, 

The dns server is on the same box.
The ip's I'm most interested in is our private IP's.
They are kept in the /etc/hosts /file. 


Paul Warren writes: 

> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:48:19PM -0400, das@onperfect.com wrote:
>> I use iftop (I love it) version 0.16.
>> I seem to have some problem getting name resolution to
>> work. I seems to some of the time and then it doesn't.  
>> 
>> Could someone fill me in on what I should know that I don't? 
> 
> Can you tell us what platform you're on and what resolver option you are
> using? 
> 
> Assuming you're using something other that netdb_1thread, iftop will
> attempt to resolve multiple addresses simultaneously, however it is
> possible that it will encounter a number of hosts for which the DNS
> servers are unavailable, in which case it will wait to time out on each
> of these hosts.  If you encounter several of these at once, it will give
> the appearance of name resolution stopping. 
> 
> Paul
 


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das@onperfect.com
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