Re: [PHP] Is gethostbyaddr() slow?

2005-08-04 Thread Kristen G. Thorson
I can say from personal experience that gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname() can seem almost randomly slow, depending on machine, OS, software, who knows. I'm not smart enough to figure out the reason why it can vary so much on machines with nearly the same configuration, but I can tell you tha

Re: [PHP] Is gethostbyaddr() slow?

2005-08-04 Thread Jochem Maas
Dotan Cohen wrote: Hi all, I just discovered the gethostbyaddr() function. By reading the user contributed notes, I get the impression that either this function may cause performance problems, or a user-contributed function based upon it may be slow. So, is gethostbyaddr() slow? Is it dangerous?

[PHP] Is gethostbyaddr() slow?

2005-08-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi all, I just discovered the gethostbyaddr() function. By reading the user contributed notes, I get the impression that either this function may cause performance problems, or a user-contributed function based upon it may be slow. So, is gethostbyaddr() slow? Is it dangerous? Thanks! Dotan Cohen