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Special Forums IP Networking Network stand still Post 302937180 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 4th of March 2015 05:59:31 AM
Old 03-04-2015
Can you show us:-
  • The content of /etc/resolv.conf
  • The content of /etc/nsswitch.conf
If you have completely turned off DNS, then you may be unable to resolv anything. If there is a slow login, then this is because the DNS servers are incorrectly configured. I've seen this before and there is about a 30 second login delay as the unix server tries to look up the incoming IP address for logging purposes.

There is a way to limit the timeout, but the real way to fix this is to have the DNS servers respond properly and say "unknown" straight away rather than panic and say nothing. This can be because they are looking to pass on the query to another DNS server that is higher up the tree (so to speak)



Thanks, in advance,
Robin
 

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FPDNS(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 FPDNS(1p)

NAME
fpdns - DNS server fingeprinting tool SYNOPSIS
fpdns [ -c ] [ -d ] [ -f ] [ -F nchild ] [ -p port ] [ -Q srcaddr ] [ -r retry ] [ -s ] [ -S separator ] [ -t timeout ] [ -v ] [server(s)] DESCRIPTION
fpdns is a program that remotely determines DNS server versions. It does this by sending a series of borderline DNS queries which are compared against a table of responses and server versions. False positives or incorrect versions may be reported when trying to identify a set of servers residing behind a load-balancing apparatus where the servers are of different implementations, when a specific implementation behaves like a forwarder, behind a firewall without statefull inspection or without Application Intelligence. OPTIONS
-c Where appropriate check CH TXT version. Off by default. -d Enable debugging. Off by default. -D Check all authoritative servers of the specified domain name. -f Force checking of CH TXT version. Off by default. -F nchild Maximum number of forked child processes. Defaults to 10. -p port Port to query remote nameserver on. Default is 53. -Q srcaddr Set the source IP address to use. -r retry Number of attempt to retry fingerprints. Defaults to 1. -s Short display form. Useful for surveys. -S Separator. Defaults to " ". -t timeout Set the query timeout in seconds. Defaults to 5. -T Use TCP instead of UDP. -v Show version of fpdns. server IP address or name to query. Alternatively may be '-' to read from a list of these from stdin AUTHORS
fpdns was written by Roy Arends and Jakob Schlyter. SEE ALSO
perl(1), Net::DNS(1) perl v5.14.2 2012-03-10 FPDNS(1p)
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