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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!neptune.gan.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-12.sprintlink.net!itnews.sc.intel.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!news.unicomp.net!cbbrowne From: cbbrowne@wolfe.brownes.org (Christopher B. Browne) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:06:04 -0500 Organization: UniComp Technologies International Corp -- Internet Service Lines: 21 Message-ID: <slrn546cbc.c5o.cbbrowne@wolfe.brownes.org> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51mod4$f7@umbc7.umbc.edu> <s8hgot6wgb.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> <51ulln$160@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: cbbrowne@unicomp.net NNTP-Posting-Host: digital69.unicomp.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.0.0 (BETA) UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130386 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27626 In article <51ulln$160@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone wrote: >>Fixing this is easy: just tell Apache not to do DNS reverse lookups. > > >Not that there is any good reason why a machine shouldn't have DNS >records. I'm considering denying people with no DNS records access >here, like the good old anonymous ftp people do... > > David ( on a crusade ;-). Dumb question: - If I'm connecting through an ISP, is it guaranteed that I will have a DNS record? I'm not aware that my ISP puts an entry into their DNS tables when I log in. They may, but if they don't... -- Christopher B. Browne, cbbrowne@unicomp.net, chris_browne@sdt.com Web: http://www.conline.com/~cbbrowne SAP Basis Consultant, UNIX Guy Windows NT - How to make a 100 MIPS Linux workstation perform like an 8 MHz 286