On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Rob Tanner wrote:
> Anyway, unless you have an extremely busy server, those lookups are
> generally not that expensive.
In the general case not for you, no (except for a tied up httpd process).
But many many addresses out there have broken name server and then it will
take a while before it times out / answers / whatever. Making your site
work a lot slower for those users.
"But they're just on broken networks". Oh yes, but you hurt yourself by
hurting those users.
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