-=> 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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