[Dxspider-support] Cluster hangs

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Sun Mar 6 20:14:56 GMT 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 11:10 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
> 7%07
> 17:58:14 -> D WS9V DX de 
> DL6RAI:    21354.9  W5KFT                                       1758Z%07%07
> 17:58:14 connect 803: Welcome to the DX Central Cluster!
> 17:58:14 Visit http://www.dxcentral.com for more information.
> 17:58:14 Your callsign:
> 17:58:14 connect 803: timeout set to 60
> 17:58:14 connect 803: sm2oan

Now this *is* interesting. At this point the code is doing a
'getpeerhost' call. I am wondering, in best tradition of code creep, on
'modern' versions of glibc, this means that a reverse DNS lookup is
being performed? These are notoriously slow and, worse, syncronous.






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