Hi everybody,
> 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.
mine is over 100MB... uncompressed. (compression ratio about 40%)
> 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.
I do READ most of the time... and then just run DNSTran once a week to get
it updated... so far so good.
--Josef D.
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