Re: IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff Trawick
Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A useful performance improvement can be achieved by allowing the administrator to select the following algorithm: lookup IPv4 if at least one IPv4 address was found, we're done lookup IPv6 I know this sounds stupid, but it is usefull to

Re: IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff Trawick
Jeff Trawick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A useful performance improvement can be achieved by allowing the administrator to select the following algorithm: lookup IPv4 if at least one IPv4 address was found, we're done lookup IPv6 Getting more specific, I envision a directive that

Re: IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-06 Thread David Reid
Looks fine to me. What will the order of the returned matches be for All? IPv4 then IPv6 would be my suggestion which we should be able to do with the changes you're talking about I'd guess. david Jeff Trawick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A useful performance improvement can be achieved by

Re: IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-06 Thread Joshua Slive
Jeff Trawick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Getting more specific, I envision a directive that works like this: NameLookups All|IPv4Okay|IPv6Okay Can I suggest IPLookups, or something along those lines. That makes it clearer that we are talking about looking up an IP address using a name, and

Re: IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff Trawick
David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks fine to me. What will the order of the returned matches be for All? IPv4 then IPv6 would be my suggestion which we should be able to do with the changes you're talking about I'd guess. Alternatively, we could leave it up the the resolver as we do

Re: IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff Trawick
Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Trawick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Getting more specific, I envision a directive that works like this: NameLookups All|IPv4Okay|IPv6Okay Can I suggest IPLookups, or something along those lines. That makes it clearer that we are talking about

IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-05 Thread Jeff Trawick
(this discussion assumes Apache has IPv6 capability) There are some situations during normal web server operation where resolver calls are made to find addresses associated with names and we have no clue whether or not the name has an IPv6 address associated with it. Forward proxy is a good

Re: IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-05 Thread David Reid
+1 for this and apache wide config flag. david (this discussion assumes Apache has IPv6 capability) There are some situations during normal web server operation where resolver calls are made to find addresses associated with names and we have no clue whether or not the name has an IPv6

Re: IPv6 capability and name lookup cost

2002-09-05 Thread Ian Holsman
Jeff Trawick wrote: (this discussion assumes Apache has IPv6 capability) There are some situations during normal web server operation where resolver calls are made to find addresses associated with names and we have no clue whether or not the name has an IPv6 address associated with it.