Another idea for you Dave via a comment by MichaelF of Info-Pop.
Some large UBBs may get bogged down processing the gethostbyaddr. Since you are the master of flexibilty in hacks and for completeness of the hack for boards already under heavy load, recommend that a "NONE" variable be added that bypasses the gethostbyaddr and just displays the Guest #1, Guest #2...etc
By the way that discussion with MichaelF is here . I hope you do not mind me keeping his interest and only assuming what can and can not be done and what he is talking about (I only guessed it was the gethostbyaddr process). Maybe you could figure out how you can market this with him and get some Walk Around Money (WAM).
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