[j-nsp] XNM & Reverse DNS lookup

Alexandre Snarskii snar at snar.spb.ru
Fri May 7 10:43:22 EDT 2010


On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 02:33:10PM +0200, Thomas Eichhorn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I currently run into the next problem with xnm, maybe
> you have an idea:
> 
> If I do a login via xnm, the login takes about 30 secs - which is a
> little bit long.
> 
> My idea behind this is, that the router tries to do a reverse lookup
> of the connecting ip.
> 
> This fails/runs into an timeout because the router uses the nearest-by
> nameserver, but the xnm connect comes from a RFC1918 IP on the
> management interface - the nameserver usually don't know about
> this and tries to resolve it - up to a timeout.
> 
> Do you have any idea howto disable reverse lookups on the router?

set system static-host-mapping <xnm-hostname> inet <rfc1918 address> ? 
 
> I have no problem to do it globally - but I do not want to remove
> the nameservers completely..
> 
> Thanks for you help,
> Tom
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