> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric A. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 2:50 PM > To: Derek Harding > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam > > > On 8/22/2005 3:34 PM, Derek Harding wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 20:05 -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: > > > >>What's the benefit of using this instead of the uridnsbl > plugin? The > >>code below will look for the IP address behind a URI and then query > >>the cn-kr.blackholes.us RBL to see if that addr is in China: > > > > This one doesn't require a DNS lookup which makes it faster. > > IP::Country use Whois lookups instead though, and UDP/DNS > lookups are going to be faster than chained TCP/Whois queries. >
Hrmm? Where does it say it uses Real-Time Whois lookups? "This module comes bundled with a database of countries where various IP addresses have been assigned." "With a random selection of 65,000 IP addresses, the module can look up over 15,000 IP addresses per second on a 730MHz PIII (Coppermine) and over 25,000 IP addresses per second on a 1.3GHz Athlon." D
