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Name: Helpful tips for using this software
File: tips.txt
Date: 25 July 2001
Auth: Russell Kroll <rkroll@exploits.org>

- To cut down on DNS traffic for things that poll a lot over
  connectionless sockets like asapm-ups and upslog, specify the remote
  host as an IP address.  Otherwise, every query forces a lookup of the
  name.

  If named is running on the local system, this isn't really a problem.