Re: snmptrapd and reverse DNS lookups

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Troy Lea <[email protected]> writes:

> But that still makes me think, how many times does snmptrapd attempt
> to perform the DNS lookup?

It should be once per packet, possibly twice if it's looking up both
sides of the connection.

(he says without diving into the code to be sure)

> Is this number of lookups something that can be defined to prevent
> this going on for 4-5 hours?

4-5 hours is crazy, as no timeout for either SNMP or DNS should ever be
that long.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
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