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From: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@pix.net>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>,
	David Miller <dmiller@search.sparks.net>
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Subject: Re: UDP limits in dns server?
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:54:06AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> >I'm looking up the IP addresses with up to 1500 or so processes each
> >taking a list of addresses and running gethostbyaddr() on them.
> 
> That's stupid. Use adns instead.
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/

That's stupid, use something advanced (and already debugged)
built on top of ADNS:

http://www.web.us.uu.net/sw/fastresolve/

-Kurt


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