Subject: is netbsd resolver reentrant?
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20040220T114511@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/20/2004 11:57:48
Is the netbsd-current resolver (and libc for that matter) reentrant?
I'm trying to characterize a hang I'm seeing very frequently with
galeon and more occasionally on mozilla-gtk.
Sometimes mozilla can be tricked into updating the statusbar to say
what it is hanging on. (click the stop icon, go into the URL window,
hit <CR>). When I did that just now mozilla-gtk says:
Resolving Host www.BIGCOMPANY.com...
Now I can resolve the same FQDN from an xterm using host(), so it
isn't like my local named doesn't have, or can't get the information.
(In the case I just looked at there was no rDNS for the IP I got for
the forward lookup. Not sure if that effected things. Reproducing
this bug on demand isn't that easy.)
-wolfgang