On 14/02/2019 23:57, Indra Talip wrote:
> Indra Talip <indra.talip@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> The current code and proposed changes use 'netstat -ia' to find the node however if netstat needs to perform a reverse DNS query to resolve some interfaces this makes using uuid1 *really* slow especially when reverse DNS queries aren't set up correctly or timeout.
>    mac = _find_mac_netstat('netstat', '-ia', b'Address', lambda i: i)
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> Would it be possible to change the netstat call to add 'n' to the nestat options, i.e. _find_mac_netstat('netstat', '-ian', ...) to prevent netstat from attempting to resolve addresses?
Sounds like an excellent idea. Gives me a reason to get started again. Thx!
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