           SPELL=massdns
         VERSION=1.0
          SOURCE=$SPELL-$VERSION.tar.bz2
SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION
   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://www.mgix.com/massdns/$SOURCE
        WEB_SITE=http://www.mgix.com/massdns
         ENTERED=20020528
     SOURCE_HASH=sha512:2ac0804f281dd35ad5e1427e7b16fc4d61c209eb851bdde4404b592a0f3a7e575f8e443006d125d55aae793da5c1d476cbc476dd4e1bc655681a7d155681b15a
        KEYWORDS="dns net"
           SHORT="reads IP addresses and converts them to a domain name using reverse DNS."

cat << EOF

If you are running a high-load WEB server a worry about its efficiency,
you most
probably have turned off reverse IP lookups for the logs, because using reverse
DNS to map a raw IP to a name is quite the resource waster.

This means that your http access logs are full of things like 234.54.122.31,
but
you have no idea who actually came knocking.

Once in a while, you would like to take that log and batch process it (maybe on
another machine) to convert those IP's back to names.

This is precisely what massdns does.

EOF
