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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@medozas.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-daemon: use getnameinfo to resolve hostname
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:22:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490901140622i1c29cd96u1b30042ad9ecb5d9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114122536.GA5939@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> So at the very least, you should be adding REMOTE_HOST in _addition_ to
> REMOTE_ADDR, not instead of. But that still leaves one final concern,
> which is that some git-daemon admins might not want to pay the cost for
> a reverse lookup for every request. It's extra network traffic, and adds
> extra latency to the process (but I don't personally run git-daemon, and
> I don't know whether big sites like kernel.org actually care about
> this).

Speaking for large sites everywhere, yes they do care. Enabling DNS
lookups must be configurable.

j.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14 10:48 [PATCH 1/3] git-daemon: single-line logs Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-14 10:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] git-daemon: use getnameinfo to resolve hostname Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-14 10:49   ` [PATCH 3/3] git-daemon: vhost support Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-14 11:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-14 13:15       ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-14 11:33   ` [PATCH 2/3] git-daemon: use getnameinfo to resolve hostname Junio C Hamano
2009-01-14 13:06     ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-14 12:25   ` Jeff King
2009-01-14 14:17     ` Adeodato Simó
2009-01-14 14:22     ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2009-01-14 19:25     ` [2/3] " Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-14 11:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] git-daemon: single-line logs Junio C Hamano
2009-01-14 13:03   ` Jan Engelhardt

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