Re: Why does printing the route table take so long?

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Entelin wrote:

> Yup your right :) thanks

Now that you know why it is slow and since it is probably your own DNS
(for showing "route"), then fix the reverse DNS locally in /etc/hosts or
for your network (or for the world).

> > Run 'route -n' to disable the DNS queries and it will run much
> > faster. This works for many of the network tools (netstat, traceroute,
> > etc).

Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.reedmedia.net/

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