[CMI.PM] Net::PH module

[Warren Raquel]

My problem was that I didn't have port 113 open on my computer.
Apparently PH requires identd. I had a 10 second delay while the ph
server was waiting for a response. Works like expected now.

Arun Bhalla wrote:

> Hi Warren,
> 
> I've never really installed or used Net::PH before, but this was a good
> excuse to do so.  I installed the latest version on CPAN and created a
> sample script that's pretty similar to the one in POD.  While there may be
> some caching effects involved, I found that my Perl script took 0.396s
> for a lookup compared to ph with 0.251s.  Surely about 0.2s of that is 
> perl overhead.  So Net::PH seems pretty reasonably efficient.
> 
> If you're doing something more complex, I'd be happy to take a look at it.
> 
> Arun
> 
> Warren Raquel writes:
> 
>>Anyone had luck with this? I've gotten it installed and working but it's 
>>really slow on the lookup whereas nph at the commandline is pretty much 
>>instantaneous. Is there anything I can do to speed up the query?
>>

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