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- From: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: NXPortNameLookup speed
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.152741.2043@nic.umass.edu>
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- References: <BtC3A1.2F5@monitor.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:27:41 GMT
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- In article <BtC3A1.2F5@monitor.com> howard@monitor.com (Howard Brenner) writes:
- >Does anyone know a more efficient way of getting the port of a program
- >running on the network other than calling NXPortNameLookup("APPNAME","*")?
- >I find this to be a fairly slow call.
-
- Avoid using the "*", it's a broadcast lookup on all the machines on your net,
- and if your net is big it probably gets really slow. This also means
- that your lookups are affected by other machines response time to the lookup
- and to the usual net timeouts blah blah blah.
-
- Maintaining a list of hosts, or just doing local lookups would probably be
- prudent at this juncture :)
-
- la la la,
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