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From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
Subject: Re: bin/2090: clients may bind to FreeBSD ypserv refusing to 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2090; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Cc: Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2090: clients may bind to FreeBSD ypserv refusing to 
 serve them
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:22:13 +0800

 Bill Paul wrote:
 > > 		- Don't let the ypserv process fork for gethostbyname()
 > > 	          lookups. Use async dns lookups instead.
 > 
 > This has been on my mind for a while, but it's fallen victim to a
 > severe lack of round tuits. One reason I've been putting it off is
 > that doing this 'correctly' would probably mean bolting some of the
 > BIND code directly onto ypserv. This would lead to yet another upgrade 
 > headache when new BIND versions are released.
 
 Another option is to fork() once and have the parent and child communicate 
 over a pipe.  This is a pretty common approach, especially for things like 
 WWW caches (eg: squid, harvest cached), MUD game drivers, etc.
 
 FWIW, there's an async DNS resolver in the later versions of the irc 
 servers, but I seem to recall that it's been contaminated with GPL code.
 
 Cheers,
 -Peter