Best strategy for overcoming excessive gethostbyname timeout.

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:35:36 -0300, r0g <aioe.org at technicalbloke.com>  
escribió:

> gethostbyname ignores setdefaulttimeout.
>
> How big a job is it to use non-blocking sockets to write a DNS lookup
> function with a customisable timeout? A few lines? A few hundred? I'd
> only need to  resolve v4 addresses for the foreseeable.

This guy reports good results using GNU adns to perform asynchronous  
queries:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/asynchronous-dns-resolution/

Also, look for pydns. Don't be afraid of its age; it always worked fine  
for me.

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Gabriel Genellina