It is a couple of seconds slow. Treating the file as an image means that the rest of the page can still load while it is doing the reverse DNS lookup and executing the script.
Anyway I have got the answer now -- JJ Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tececo.com "Richard Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >When the nessicary include file is included it does a reverse-DNS lookup to > >find the remote host's DNS name. The problem with this is that is seems > >slow(at least on my test server with a DSL connection). > > How slow? > > There's, like, a couple seconds slow, which is just how slow reverse-DNS can > be, and *MINUTES* slow... > > > Minutes slow, most likely, indicates that where-ever you are trying to look > up the DNS records is trying to do a reverse DNS on *YOU* (or, rather, PHP's > web-server) and timing out. > > If you have any control over that machine where you are doing the > reverse-DNS, be sure they have your IP address associated with a name. > > For DSL, you can use something like http://dyndns.org to give your dynamic > IP address a domain name. There are dozens of competitors to > http://dyndns.org, and feel free to shop around. > > >I thought the best > >way to speed things up would be putting the entire script into a file and > >then using <img src="stats.php"> within the page. The problem is that I > >don't know how to output the image with PHP. > > Like, I don't even understand the theory here... > > How would the script being in a file (and where is it now?) make the DNS > lookups any faster? I'm so confused. > > At any rate, a sample of how to dump out an image was already posted in this > thread. > > -- > Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
