RE: Timeout while DNS lookups fail

"Mike Ayers" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <83E753BE7B6A324ABB336245BAF1DAAC0A360C5C@mailserver.metatv-ds.metatv.com>
> From: Pete Kelly [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:25 PM

> I don't follow the "Try specifying infosink or trapess by IPaddress" 
> comment.  Is this referencing net-snmp configuration settings?

	Yes.

> There is nothing on the machine on which net-snmp is running, that 
> references either an IP address or a name for the trap senders 
> specifically to try and eliminate any DNS lookups.  That 
> includes hosts, 
> bind, or resolv.conf.

	Look at the notification target configuration.  If you specify IP addresses for the targets, there will be no name resolution, and therefore no DNS lookup.  Targets are often specified with "trapsink" directives in snmpd.conf, but there are other ways to do it.


	HTH,

Mike

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