Subj : 2:5057/53
To   : Tony Langdon
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Jul 13 2018 09:41 am


 On 2018 Jul 13 12:55:00, you wrote to me:

 ml>> yes, this was brought up some time in the recent past in the BINKD
 ml>> echo when i asked for an option to turn off DNS lookups and just use
 ml>> node numbers... i don't mind a lookup when i want to poll a domain

that should have said "just log IP numbers" instead of "just use node 
numbers"...

 ml>> but i don't need to know IPs for the rest of their AKAs... certainly
 ml>> i don't need the gigs of data from all those lookups stuffing up my
 ml>> pipe...

 TL> Well, if you have your own cacheing DNS server, you can minimise that
 TL> traffic too.

of course that's already being done ;) but there's still a lot of traffic on 
the wire that just doesn't need to be there...

 TL> I don't mind the DNS lookups, if they're going to help, but not when
 TL> they break something that should work.

i don't know of any breakage... it is mainly a nuisance... like a "chatty 
cathy" that just won't shut up... ever...

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

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

seems like quite a few are :)

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
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