Re: [PATCH] Mass rDNS performance

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:21:14 -0700 or thereabouts Fyodor
<fyodor () insecure org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:19:41AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
> > When I resolve 16384 randomly generated IPs that all have a reverse
> > name (I reverse resolved 1 million, extracted 16384 with a name) the
> > current code is quite a bit slower.
>
> Hi Brandon.  Thanks for helping out with large scale testing of the
> patch!  Did you compare the accuracy of the 16,384 reverse-resolves
> (e.g. what percentage succeeded, since it sounds like they all should
> have in an ideal case) between the patched and unpatched versions?
> Performance alone only tells half the story.
>
> Cheers,
> -F

I considered that but it looked to me as though both were > 99%
accurate.  I wanted to get some results emailed before I went to bed
and the results weren't fresh in my mind.

I'll re-run the non-patched tests to check accuracy.

Brandon

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