In article <x7wu6h7ccj.fsf@capsicum.wsrcc.com>,
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20040220T114511@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com> wrote:
>
>Is the netbsd-current resolver

no

(and libc for that matter) reentrant?

portions of it are, according to each functions spec.


christos

>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