> Peter, > > You're obviously right but what does this have to do with PEERS NAMES and > the impossibility to store it on release 1.5h servers? At present PEERS NAMES > is only 350 records or so in Netdata format and we're not yet forced to use an > update concept -- please remember that UPDNODES is very slow and requires a Eric, I heard exactly the same argument a year ago about XMAILER names. The same is true for NETCNTRY NAMES .... Everyone who needs a "global" directory service reinvents it. > lot of OS storage. We also don't have a checksum system yet. Anyway I don't > think this is our most important problem right now. I know all the places why UPDNODES is slow. There are many way to improve that. Please remember that this program is my second pascal program at all written in spare time As long as the "network directory" does not move a substantial step towards "international" standards I do not see to invest to much time making performance improvements. If the directory which is processed by UPDNODES and GENODUPD changes, the program will definetely be changed. > > Eric Peter