[Dnsmasq-discuss] Many immortals slow down dnsmasq. Bug or expected ?
wkitty42 at gmail.com
wkitty42 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 15:35:46 BST 2015
On 10/03/2015 06:37 PM, Simon Kelley wrote:
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> address=/abcd/0.0.0.0/ does NOT use the cache code. There's an implied
> wildcard in the domain name, it matches *.abcd. The matching for this
> is a relatively slow, linear, search. It is certainly not suitable for
> 250000 names!
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> If you don't need the wildcard matching, then using
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> host-record=abcd,0.0.0.0
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> instead will make real cache entries, which are efficently searched.
> That will be much, much faster.
what does one do if they do need wildcard matching?
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