If Linux is like Solaris, then you should be able to simply remove the
"dns" entry in your /etc/nsswitch.conf for the "hosts" line.  I haven't
tried this, but I would hope it works the same way.
~M

On 29 Aug 2001, Nathan England wrote:

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> This may seem dumb.  I've looked everywhere, tried many different
> things, and I can't get it to work..
> Is there anyway to stop linux from doing a reverse name lookup?
>
> I have a local caching bind system, and it's working for everything..
> Here's my problem.
>
> While I'm at work I constantly check all my email from my server at
> home, but everytime Evolution (or anything) checks the mail my server at
> home does the reverse name lookup on my IP from work.  My employer feels
> it neccessary to disable the reverse name lookup on our outbound IP
> here, so there is nothing I can do from work side.
> Only thing I can figure is disabling it on my machine.  But after many
> hours of trying this and that, I can't figure it out.. Even when I added
> my work IP to my servers hosts file it did nothing..
>
> <wimper>...help...</wimper>
> I also tried the compressed ssh tunnell, which worked great becaue then
> everything was secure, but it was still slow, and caused Evolution to
> freak out a lot..  Since I have almost 2000 emails just from the plug on
> my imap, evo was going nuts..  But if I don't use the compressed
> tunnell, it works much better.
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