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Re: ipconfig waitall > /dev/null 2>&1

> On 29-03-2002 16:49, "Allan Nathanson" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> The ipconfig getoption "" host_name command fetches the host name provided
> by a DHCP server if that's how you got your IP address. If you didn't get
> your address via DHCP or a host name wasn't provided by the server then
> these lines are an effective NOOP.

> NetInfo is not in the picture at this time.
>

Not even in a planned future release?

Thanks! Wasn't sure, there certainly are many key, value pairs associated
with DHCP. I wish the Airport supported NAT->external DHCP router with
fixed internal network/host IP addresses.


>> Its seems clear that netstat -r relies on lookupd...
>
> If you omit the "-n" option then the netstat command ends up making a
> bunch of calls to getnetbyaddr() to find a meaningful name for each
> network. Try using "netstat -rn" if you want to skip these calls.
>

Yep, that's true. Gethostbyname, getnetbyaddr all seem to be spliced into
lookupd.

Thanks!

- P.

> - Allan
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