At 08:55 2001-03-30 -0700, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>>Let me try and put it another way. You're only thinking in terms of aliasing
>>unresolvable names. I know that's what you want to do, but by doing the DNS
>>lookups first, analog also allows aliasing of the resolved name.
>
>Could Analog be written to be smart enough to notice the difference? Then
>it could alias unresolved names before lookups,
You do realize that one must perform a lookup in order to determine if an
address is unresolvable?
Perhaps the HOSTALIAS function could have a wrapper on it which is used for
a PREHOSTALIAS configitem - which would alias BEFORE lookups, and if it
returned something, no lookup or HOSTALIASing would be performed. In all
other respects, it's the same function, just gets called at a different point.
This would allow definition of wide swathes of IP addresses.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Post Box 2395 / San Rafael, CA 94912-2395
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