Development TODO

Things to do for version 2.1

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Features

• External
  • Processing
    • Ability to find IP numbers in arbitrary text files
    • Bytecounts for ELF
    • Include multisort functionality
    • IP Statistics
  • Lookups
    • Use specific nameservers
    • Connect to nameservers directly
    • Check forward nameservice against reverse
    • Guess at aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd -> dialup-ddd.isp.com mappings
    • Do entire Class C reverse lookups in one gulp
• Internal
  • Portability
    • Somewhat-synchronized Perl version
    • More I/O error checking
    • Memory-limiting self-trimming hash table
    • Portability from David Robinson's 1.0->1.1 changes
    • More portable Makefile - so far, so good!
  • Performance
    • Multi-process and/or multi-threaded processing, Communicating via:
      • Shared memory
      • INET or UNIX domain sockets
      • Other sorts of pipes
    • Client/Server architecture for use as Apache piped log processor
    • Pipeline multiple logfiles, to keep all resolvers busy at all times.