Posted by kalinga on 08/04/05 18:40

On 8/4/05, Kristen G. Thorson <kthorson@allegroconsultants.com> wrote:
> I can say from personal experience that gethostbyaddr() and
> gethostbyname() can seem almost randomly slow, depending on machine, OS,
> software, who knows. I'm not smart enough to figure out the reason why
> it can vary so much on machines with nearly the same configuration, but
> I can tell you that it works perfectly fast most of the time. Then
> there's that other 5% where something makes it slow as molasses.
>
> I have two machines that are so similar it's not funny, but
> gethostbyname() takes 1/10 s on one, and 5 s on the other. I have yet
> to figure out what's the difference between them that causing this.
>
>
> kgt
>
>
>
> 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?
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Dotan Cohen
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> >
> >
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