Re[2]: Annoying delays appeared while connecting to the server

From: Illia Baidakov (illich_at_newchem.ru)
Date: 06/24/04

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To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>

    Hello Mark,

    Thursday, June 24, 2004, 8:03:21 AM, you wrote:

    >> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Illia Baidakov wrote:
    >>
    >> > Hello freebsd-stable,
    >> >
    >> > I noticed it about a week ago. My local hosts have suffering
    >> > such delays while connecting to the (imho) tcp-wrapped services,
    >> > namely ssh, smtp, mysql.
    >> > It looks like the addresses to names resolving. I don't need to resolve m
    >> y
    >> > local names or addresses now. There was not any delays early.
    >> > But they have appeared without any visable reason.
    >> >
    >> > What could to involve a such system behaviour?
    >> > How should I return my system to previous state?
    >> >
    >> > P.S. I will not want neither to edit the /etc/hosts file nor create
    >> > and maintain dns-zones for the internal hosts.
    >>
    >> I don't see any changes to the tcpwrappers services. Check resolv.conf;
    >> maybe one of the listed nameservers is down or unresponsive?
    >>
    My 127.0.0.1 nameserver is up, partially at the connection starting
    time.

    >> You really should have machines in DNS or /etc/hosts, but if you don't
    >> want to maintain that, then you suffer the consequences.

    MA> He is also in violation of RFC 1918. You don't have to

    In which part of it?

    MA> populate the reverse zone. A empty zone (SOA and NS records
    MA> only) will prevent the queries leaking and improve response
    MA> times.

    Yes, it has solved my problem.

    MA> Why should the rest of the world have to fork out real money
    MA> to run nameservers to sink these bogus queries?

    Now I'm going to meet how does a name resolving in the in-addr.arpa goes on.
    Thank you. 

    -- 
Illia Baidakov.
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