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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
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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
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