It does add a fair amount of delay when processing hundreds of entries at a time. As a work-around we use DNS within servers alive heavily but then modify the windows HOSTS file for the systems which we know will not change to provide the performance we are looking for.
~Patrick From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry George Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:16 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] IP vs. DNS lookup Dirk/Community, In your tests throughout the years with SA, how expensive is it in terms of Guest system resources (and best practices) is it to use Host DNS lookups as opposed to using IP addressing for Host identification on checks? Barry George 807 346-2546 IT Department Dougallmedia Thunder Bay Television CKPR /CJSD /CFNO /CFQK Radio TBnewswatch.com / The Source Newspaper To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list.
