[mrtg] Re: MRTG uses DNS lookups to run?

[Stieers, Ken]

It is if your targets say something like this:

Target[name]: 1:public at router1.ppsf.com

If you just have the IP addresses, it wouldn't need to do the lookup. 

Ken 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Durham [mailto:patd at ppsf.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 1:41 PM
> To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
> Subject: [mrtg] MRTG uses DNS lookups to run?
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm using MRTG 2.7.5 with Linux 5.2, kernel 2.2.7, and IP Chains 1.3.9
> to query some routers on my WAN.  Every time MRTG runs I get 
> a bunch of
> out-going DNS queries (in my firewall logs) from the Linux 
> box MRTG runs
> on.  Although this is not a problem is it necessary for MRTG to do DNS
> lookups for SNMP queries?  Just curious.
> 
> Regards,
> Pat
> 
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