Re: [exim] dbm vs net-iplsearch for mixed ip/range lists?

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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] dbm vs net-iplsearch for mixed ip/range lists?
On 26 Sep 2005 at 0:00, Stephen Gran wrote about
    "Re: [exim] dbm vs net-iplsearch for":


|...
| http://www.megacity.org/software_downloads/cidrexpand
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| and do a 2 pass run over your file - first convert it with the abve
| script and then build the db.


Interesting, that would work. But I would think it would be typical
for the resulting DB file to have at least two or three orders of
magnitude more entries than the original CIDR file. Is a dbm or cdb
search really so much faster that this would be a win?

- Fred