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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