Subj : Re: 2:5057/53
To   : mark lewis
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sat Jul 14 2018 11:40 am

-=> On 07-13-18 09:41, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

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

That makes sense.  Surely a "-n" option could be added (-n is commonly used in
other software to disable lookups).

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

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

I wouldn't have thought it'd be that much, but never been too worried about it.

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

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

I did have breakage on my othernets when I used a global root-domain setting.
)

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

 ml> seems like quite a few are :)

Haardly surprising, Perl is a good language for manipulating text. :)


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