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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!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:42:43 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3242AD63.2857@www.play-hookey.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51mod4$f7@umbc7.umbc.edu> <s8hgot6wgb.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> <51ulln$160@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130536 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27662 David Malone wrote: > > Miguel de Icaza <miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> writes: > > >Keep in mind that the default setup of Apache may dispatch pages > >slower than NT just because it does a hostname lookup from the > >incoming connection. Try to download a set of pages from a stock > >Apache server from a machine without a name and see what happens. > > >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... > My Apache server hasw been recompiled only to the extent of allowing dbm database files and Netscape cookies; the rest is the stock layout. It has no problem with clients having no DNS entries -- the log file simply records the IP address. I don't find it any less informative than an entry of PPP96.whosiwhitchall.org in my logs. And I certainly see no reason to deny anyone access to my site just because they're happy dealing in numbers, without paying InterNIC for domain registration. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |