Re: Rule efficiency

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 7/23/2010 13:38, Isherwood, Jeffrey - IS wrote:
> I’m on the lookout for some traffic to several domains that I have been asked to
> monitor… and I’m wondering which is more efficient, several rules that each only
> look for a domain name – or one rule that looks for many domain names at once?
>
> Currently I’m doing the one at a time method, but the list of domains I need to
> monitor just quadrupled and I am unsure which would be more efficient…

multiple rules are more efficient... rules with regex is not as efficient...

there are times, however, where one might decide to go with the regex for 
numerous reasons... rule maintainability being one of those...

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