Small fix to whoisd.pl

	My test results: both servers (whoids and in.whoisd) run
on a Sparc 20, on the same Ethernet segment as the client.
I did a
	loop(500) {
		whois -h radb 128.141		# whoisd
		whois -h radb -p 10043 128.141  # in.whoisd
		whois -h radb 35		# whoisd
		whois -h radb -p 10043 35       # in.whoisd
	}
I got 1000 data points.
The whoisd take about 0.8s for 1 query
The in.whoisd takes about 1.4s for 1 query (70% slower).

	That's all folks.
		Laurent

PS: data available on request :-)

In our previous episode, Geert Jan de Groot said:
> 
> On Wed, 3 May 1995 14:56:52 -0400 (EDT)  Laurent Joncheray wrote:
> > 	It is an old issue but...
> > 	why don't you port whoisd to be called from [x]inetd. So you
> > won't need any networking hack. It has been like that on radb.ra.net,
> > and it seems to be fine.
> > 		Laurent
> > PS: lot of advantages: do not need to run as root, IP filtering, logging,
> 
> I just did some measurements; I did a 10 queries to the standard whois
> service, and one running via inetd, and found:
> direct:	25.25s
> inetd:   5.00s
> direct whois is 5 times faster.
> 
> This is averaged over a number of measurements on the same machine,
> and local (2 hops ether) network.
> 
> This is probably why httpd servers want to run standalone, instead of
> via inetd. Note that I needed to hack whoisd to make it work under
> inetd (David whispered something about a fix being available from
> Merit, but I didn't have it so I butchered the code to do this;
> I'm not a perl programmer)
> 
> The big difference is probably caused by perl initializing, as it
> 'compiles' the perl script every time it starts; some debug-prints
> made that quite clear.
> 
> It seems that we can have either a safe whois, or a fast whois;
> I can think of a port relay program (yech), or a kernel hack
> to unprivilege port 43 (that's what I would do).
> 
> Geert Jan
> 
> 


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