Bug 11048

Summary:	ping performs DNS lookups too often
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Adam Spiers <redhat>
Component:	iputils	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	dr, jerry
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Description Adam Spiers 2000-04-25 22:25:28 UTC

Unless you disable DNS lookups altogether with the -n option, ping performs
a DNS lookup every time it sends an ICMP echo.  This is distinctly
anti-social behaviour, especially considering that the only reason it does
a DNS lookup is to make the output prettier.

This behaviour doesn't seem to occur with Redhat 6.0 and 6.1, presumably
because their ping comes from netkit-base rather than from iputils.

For reference, the maintainer of iputils seems to be
<kuznet.ac.ru>, so I guess he should be contacted about this.

Comment 1 Neal Nuckolls 2000-05-02 18:03:59 UTC

No kidding.  If I give a numeric IP address to ping
I don't expect it to request and require DNS reverse
IPaddr-to-name entries to work.  Geez.  I just wasted
an hour trying to figure out what was introducing a large
random number of seconds delay when I did "ping 10.100.58.140"
and didn't use the "-n" option.  I've been using ping for
20 years and never had to use the "-n" option for
this basic diagnostic tool to work before.
Please FIX.  thanks.

nn

Comment 2 bcboy 2000-05-07 23:12:59 UTC

An hour? I just lost five days to this "feature". DNS at my
work changed without notice, and I've been fighting ever since
trying to figure out why *all* my connectivity just stopped
working. tcpdump didn't turn up the dns queries, or I might
have noted it sooner.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2000-06-14 17:20:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10436 ***