Sean Straw / PSE wrote:
> 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?
Which is why I said "unresolved."
> 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.
My solution was essentially the same except that I'm trying to convince
Stephen to make Analog more usable by having the computer figure this
out rather than the user. Computers have lots of power, we might as well
take advantage of that to make software easier to use.
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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