>When the nessicary include file is included it does a reverse-DNS lookup to >find the remote host's DNS name. The problem with this is that is seems >slow(at least on my test server with a DSL connection).
How slow? There's, like, a couple seconds slow, which is just how slow reverse-DNS can be, and *MINUTES* slow... Minutes slow, most likely, indicates that where-ever you are trying to look up the DNS records is trying to do a reverse DNS on *YOU* (or, rather, PHP's web-server) and timing out. If you have any control over that machine where you are doing the reverse-DNS, be sure they have your IP address associated with a name. For DSL, you can use something like http://dyndns.org to give your dynamic IP address a domain name. There are dozens of competitors to http://dyndns.org, and feel free to shop around. >I thought the best >way to speed things up would be putting the entire script into a file and >then using <img src="stats.php"> within the page. The problem is that I >don't know how to output the image with PHP. Like, I don't even understand the theory here... How would the script being in a file (and where is it now?) make the DNS lookups any faster? I'm so confused. At any rate, a sample of how to dump out an image was already posted in this thread. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
