From: Tony Finch Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:18:07 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Be more explicit about the performance of UseCanonicalName DNS X-Git-Tag: 1.3.10~16 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5288c0fb1685832d874bc24ba45a4cb261e71d58;p=apache Be more explicit about the performance of UseCanonicalName DNS after the scoreboard change. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@84440 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.html b/docs/manual/mod/core.html index f28e29dbcc..4a55de51c0 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/core.html +++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.html @@ -3144,6 +3144,9 @@ is intended for use with mass IP-based virtual hosting to support ancient clients that do not provide a Host: header. With this option Apache does a reverse DNS lookup on the server IP address that the client connected to in order to work out self-referential URLs. +This can have adverse performance implications, especially if you use +%V in a CustomLog +directive or have ExtendedStatus on.

Warning: if CGIs make assumptions about the values of SERVER_NAME they may be broken by this option. The client