[Sheflug] Re: Routing Problem

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> Actually this doesn't work.  I had to do 'ipchains -L
    Richard> -n'.  Got that from Matt Palmer in Oz.

Yeah, right.

Why that isn't default[1] I don't know; it's normally true when I'm
using tools like route, netstat, and ipchains that my network is hosed
in one way or another, and I bet 50% or the time (or more) I either
don't have access to DNS or would rather have the numerical IPs anyway.

Not to mention being noticably faster if you're on a slow line.

Footnotes: 
[1]  On Linux, where a large majority of users experience most of
their configuration probelms with dialups.  Obviously it makes sense
to default to IP lookup in more stable Ethernet environments with a
local NS.

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