Re: netstat -r

[Claudio Jeker <cjeker_(_at_)_stud_(_dot_)_ee_(_dot_)_ethz_(_dot_)_ch>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:36:56PM +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> Just curious: Why does netstat -r take such a lot of time on an
> OpenBSD box, both i386 and sparc? My FreeBSD machine needs only a
> second or two for the same.  
> 
I had the same problem (and I think I still have the same problem).
I installed OpenBSD 2.6 on a SUN4M (sparc) machine a few days ago.
Everytime when I logged into the system or made a su or netstat -r my dial
on demand line went up. So I started to tcpdump all my interfaces on my
dail out machine (eth0, sl0, ...).
There seems to be a strange problem in OpenBSD with long hostnames. Long
hostname get cutted down to about 16 chars, so when I log in from my mac
"powermac.home.n-r-g.com" the OpenBSD box tried to resolve
"powermac.home.n-" and this is a inexistant domain.

I was not shure if this was a OpenBSD bug or just a misconfiguration (this
is my first OpenBSD box, I allready used Slowaris and Linux and thought it
would be good to have a look into a good OS ;-) )

Has nobody else seen that effect?

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:wq Claudio