diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index a547cb5d..58f07dba 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ ver. 0.9.0 (2007/??/??) - alpha
 - Fixed vulnerability in sshd.conf. Thanks to Daniel B. Cid
 - Expand <HOST> in ignoreregex. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
 - Improved regular expressions. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
+- Removed textToDns() which is not required anymore. Thanks
+  to Yaroslav Halchenko
 
 ver. 0.8.0 (2007/05/03) - stable
 ----------
diff --git a/server/filter.py b/server/filter.py
index 52d2642a..c471d1e3 100644
--- a/server/filter.py
+++ b/server/filter.py
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ class Filter(JailThread):
 	# @return True when the thread exits nicely
 
 	def run(self):
-		raise Exception("run() is abstract")
+		raise NotImplementedException("run() is abstract")
 	
 	##
 	# Add an IP/DNS to the ignore list.
@@ -494,18 +494,6 @@ class DNSUtils:
 			return list()
 	dnsToIp = staticmethod(dnsToIp)
 	
-	#@staticmethod
-	def textToDns(text):
-		""" Search for possible DNS in an arbitrary text.
-			Thanks to Tom Pike.
-		"""
-		match = DNSUtils.DNS_CRE.match(text)
-		if match:
-			return match
-		else:
-			return None
-	textToDns = staticmethod(textToDns)
-	
 	#@staticmethod
 	def searchIP(text):
 		""" Search if an IP address if directly available and return
@@ -543,11 +531,9 @@ class DNSUtils:
 				ipList.append(plainIPStr)
 		if not ipList:
 			# Try to get IP from possible DNS
-			dns = DNSUtils.textToDns(text)
-			if not dns == None:
-				ip = DNSUtils.dnsToIp(dns.group(0))
-				for e in ip:
-					ipList.append(e)
+			ip = DNSUtils.dnsToIp(text)
+			for e in ip:
+				ipList.append(e)
 		return ipList
 	textToIp = staticmethod(textToIp)