On 6/7/00 9:08 AM Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Jason Linhart wrote:
>>
>> The Macintosh version of Analog already works with compressed DNS cache
>> files automaticaly. On the Unix version, it wouldn't be that difficult of
>> a change to the source. You need to popen the file and pipe it through
>> zcat instead of just opening it. The restriction is that this can only
>> work in DNS READ mode, DNS WRITE would result in the compressed DNS cache
>> file getting corrupted.
>
>Would people find this useful? I've never thought it would be all that
>useful because you would have to (i) be using DNS READ or LOOKUP, not WRITE;
>(ii) have such a long DNS file that you don't want to store it uncompressed.
My dnscache file is over 80 Meg uncompressed, it actualy loads and saves
faster if I compress it then if I leave it uncompressed. Of course the
differences are minor, hard disks are so large these days that it isn't
much of a difference.
I always use DNSTran in translate mode, so this doesn't matter to me, but
I can easily see wanting Analog to run in DNS READ with DNSTran doing the
lookups and the cache compressed. Actualy, if I switched to that mode I
would get the current days log entries that already had dnscache entries
looked up in the reports, while currently they wait till the evening
translate run of DNSTran.
Jason
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