On 25 Sep 2005 at 12:13, OpenMacNews wrote about
"[exim] dbm vs net-iplsearch for mix":
|...
| i suppose a two-pass lookup string approach, matching 1st for address, then
| range, is doable,
I don't think so. How would you convert the connecting IP address to
a string that looks like a CIDR range with the correct number of
masked bits?
| but at that point is it simpler/faster just to do the
| net-iplsearch on the text list?
|
| bottom/line, is dbm lookup appropriate/efficient for such mixed lists?
No. From spec.txt:
* iplsearch: The given file is a text file containing keys and data. A key is
... (snip description)
Warning 1: Unlike most other single-key lookup types, a file of data for
iplsearch can not be turned into a DBM or cdb file, because those lookup
types support only literal keys.
- Fred
