Re: "resolving host"

From: Ralph Katz (ralph.katz_at_rcn.com)
Date: 10/02/04

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    On 09/30/04 23:21, Haines Brown wrote:
    > Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> writes:
    >
    >
    >>What do you get when you try to resolve the address directly?
    >>
    >>Ex:
    >>
    >>~$ time host www.debian.org
    >>www.debian.org has address 194.109.137.218
    >>
    >>real 0m0.071s
    >>user 0m0.050s
    >>sys 0m0.010s
    >>
    >>That ain't molasses.... :)
    >
    >
    > This opens a whole new perspective for me. Not to derail the thread,
    > but I get:
    >
    > $ time host www.debian.org
    > www.debian.org A 194.109.137.218
    >
    > real 0m0.027s
    > user 0m0.000s
    > sys 0m0.000s
    >
    > The man and info time did not make clear to me what "real", "user" and
    > "sys" refer to. Would you inlighten me? What is the "A"? Why zero time
    > for the user and sys?

    Haines,

    Beats me, I'm the average Joe that sits in this Ferrari called debian
    GNU/Linux and says, "wow!" :)

    Looks to me like your computer is faster or less busy than mine. man
    time does answer your question, but I can't explain it further.

    Regards. 

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