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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:56:05 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        root@spiffy.cybernet.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gethostbyXXX() blocking too long 
Message-ID:  <4427.816638165@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 1995 15:25:25 EST." <XFMail.951117142244.root@spiffy.cybernet.com> 

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There are two ways that I can see to fix this problem:
1) get the reverse name entries in one of our primary Internet
   DNS servers
2) call alarm()/setitimer() before any blocking DNS calls
> ..
> So, am I totally wrong in requesting that change (2) go into FreeBSD
> daemons, so that at least when someone at sites w/o reverse DNS

Uh, yeah, I think that can be safely answered in the affirmative. :-)

Option 1 is yer only man, as the Irish say.

					Jordan



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