[collectd] Bug#455162: please do not do reverse lookups

[Florian Forster]

Hi Simon,

thanks for your bug report :)

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:54:01AM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> some of collectd's plugins, most notably ntp, attempt to perform a
> reverse lookup on some hosts, and use the result as the file name.

Do you have other examples? A quick grep only revealed the ntpd plugin.

> This has several disadvantages:
Omitted for clarity. Please see the following URL for Simon's full bug
report:
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455162>

Sold. I'll add this as an option to the ntpd plugin, so you can disable
the lookups in the configfile. Changing the default behavior would break
backwards compatibility though.

> Version: 3.10.4-1+b3

Since this is a new features it will not make it in the 3.11.* versions
but the new 4.3.0 feature release. This is of course independent of what
Sebastian includes as patches in the Debian package.

Regards,
-octo
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