Why does Xfce 4.2 have to query a DNS ?

[Jon Drews]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:37:42 -0600, Craig Boston <craig at yekse.gank.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:56:03PM -0700, Jon Drews wrote:
> > I have this:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1    localhost localhost.silbsd.org notebook2.silbsd.org notebook2
> 
> Hmm, that's really odd then.  Both getaddrinfo and gethostbyname should
> use hosts first and then fall back on DNS if that fails.  Perhaps it's
> querying for some other name besides your own.  Is it possible to run
> tcpdump on the ppp interface to see what name it's trying to resolve?


Here is a small bit of output from tcpdump (this is the first time I
ever used it)

notebook2# tcpdump -vv -i tun0
tcpdump: listening on tun0, link-type NULL (BSD loopback), capture size 96 bytes
13:52:12.114360 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 4333, offset 0, flags [DF],
length: 1164) 37.denver-03rh15rt.co.dial-access.att.net.58964 > 6
4.233.179.106.http: P 937912026:937913150(1124) ack 2155284831 win 65535
13:52:12.523402 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  46, id 42128, offset 0, flags
[none], length: 40) 64.233.179.106.http > 37.denver-03rh15rt.co.dial-a
ccess.att.net.58964: . [tcp sum ok] 1:1(0) ack 1124 win 22122

                            <SNIP>

 Craig, I really don't  know how to use this thing (tcpdump). I could
read up on.

                                  Kind regards,
                                   Jon