bind and arp

Fri Aug 10 19:05:05 UTC 2001

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:19:04AM -0700, Tim Maestas wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Your name server is doing reverse lookups because your packet
> 	sniffer (tcpdump?) is converting the IP's it's seeing on the
> 	wire to names.  If you are not running the sniffer, or if
> 	you tell it not to do name resolution (-n on tcpdump) you 
> 	probably will not see these lookups happening.
> 

Doh!

You are correct.  Thank you.

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