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On  1 Sep, stephen farrell wrote:
> The DNS helper is there because the nameserver lookup routines in unix
> are blocking (and cannot, as I understand it, easily be fixed to be
> asynchronous).

Ahh.  That's OK then.  Pardon me for ranting without full posession of
the facts.

-- 
Andrew

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