On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:10:59 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>There is no way of doing this at present. I see what you are trying to
>do, though that isn't really a "lookup" like the others. For a start,
>you are implying linear processing of a file rather than key=>value
>indexing. Also, host list matching doesn't return a value (in general),
>so this really is a different kind of beast altogether.
Yes, it is actually a match.
>At present, you'll have to do this with a series of lookups for the IP
>address, the masked IP address, and the host name. They can all look in
>the same file, of course. However, the benefit is that you can make it a
>DBM or cdb file, and thereby get reasonable performance for large lists.
I see. Thanks for enlightening me ;)
I will probably evaluate using embedded perl.
May I have a match_hostname feature added to the wish list?
Greetings
Marc
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