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 :)   
      
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