Re: the real problem with the ip-to-country DB / phpweb

OK; the server will sync in around 15 minutes. I'm taking a look at implementing some C code for the IP lookup to make it nice and fast; this could be deployed in www.php.net as a PHP extension, and we can fall back to the current scheme for other mirrors. You say the DB is screwed up; is the DB we have for php.net using the same data as the ip-to-country.txt file available in the .zip from the directi site? If so, is that data flawed also? --Wez. On Sun, 25 May 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > I suspected the ip-to-country code was the guilty party. > > I notice that you have comitted a fix; are you confident that this will > > work if I turn on rsync on www.php.net again? > > > > If so, just let me know and I'll make it happen :) > > The ip lookup will not work correctly, as the DB is bogus. But we cannot > help anything but wait for a new DB (which is what Divyank is working on > right now). > > But the server will not be bogged down with the current code, I am > confident ;) The search will stop at anytime, when it would be too > expensive to search in the DB, and return 'NA' [unable to detect] as the > country code. I believe that my fix greatly reduded the number of > checked records if the IP is not found. That does not mean you should > not monitor it, after you turn on rsync again. ;) > > Goba > > >