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Posted by Jochem Maas on 08/04/05 17:55
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Hi all, I just discovered the gethostbyaddr() function. By reading the
> user contributed notes, I get the impression that either this function
> may cause performance problems, or a user-contributed function based
> upon it may be slow. So, is gethostbyaddr() slow? Is it dangerous?
I'm guessing that the speed is very much dependent on the speed of the
underlying dns query mechanism - so probably yes, it's relatively slow.
and not something you want to be doing many times within a single request.
probably someone will now declare me a retard ;-)
> Thanks!
>
> Dotan Cohen
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