Re: DNS Lookups ? huh ?

[David Brown]

The problem was solved offline with the kind help of Bill Mosely, but I'll
post the solution here for the masses.

I had an entry in my httpd.conf to the tune of something like:

Deny from some.bad.domain.com

As this was a name and not an IP address, the machine had to lookup each
incoming IP address to make sure it didn't match the domain name listed in
Deny from...

(The rebuild of mod_perl coincided with some dolt flooding our machine)