Re: FW: Ctrl+Shift+6 then X

[Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>]

On 23/02/2009 23:51, Tom Storey wrote:
> Erm, what does that have to do with DNS lookups? :-)

Nothing at all, except that it stops this behaviour:

> ... when you have no DNS
> servers configured and mistype "configt", or some other command that
> doesnt exist and it tries to resolve it through broadcast several times.

More specifically, IOS command mode will assume by default that any non 
recognised command is actually a hostname which it should try to connect to 
- a fossilised relic of times past, when routers were often terminal 
servers.  You can stop it doing this by using "transport preferred none" on 
the appropriate line configuration.

Nick