Subj : Re: 2:5057/53
To   : mark lewis
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Fri Jul 13 2018 12:55 pm

-=> On 07-12-18 11:03, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ml> yes, this was brought up some time in the recent past in the BINKD echo
 ml> when i asked for an option to turn off DNS lookups and just use node
 ml> numbers... i don't mind a lookup when i want to poll a domain but i
 ml> don't need to know IPs for the rest of their AKAs... certainly i don't
 ml> need the gigs of data from all those lookups stuffing up my pipe...

Well, if you have your own cacheing DNS server, you can minimise that traffic
too.  I don't mind the DNS lookups, if they're going to help, but not when they
break something that should work.

 ml> nice... pointers? i've also cross-posted this to BINKD since it is
 ml> rather far afield for this area...

I don't have the link, but it was posted somewhere a month or two ago.  It was
a Perl script, IIRC.


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