Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 21:32:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
Anything for a performance boost :)
... within limits. Most reasonably up-to-date servers are fast enough
for almost everybody (i.e., everyone with < 0.4M hits/day)
The number of CGI applications which *need* to get the actual host
name *at processing time* is kind of small - and every CGI tutorial
I've seen has said that it can't be relied upon anyways. If you
compile now with -DMINIMAL_DNS, does REMOTE_HOST get set?
Haven't tried, but I don't see how it could. However, there are
scripts which do make use of good values where available, and I don't
see the point of cutting them off. Perhaps we could make it optional
(but then again, I guess it already is).
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