[Pythonmac-SIG] socket.getaddrinfo problems

[Jack Jansen]

That lookupd manpage sure is interesting, and it really makes you 
wonder why some people see these funny timings in Python...

What I'm now wondering is: could it be that somehow Python bypasses 
lookupd, maybe because of the way it calls getaddrinfo or something 
like that?
And then the next question is: can we come up with an experiment to 
test this theory? For instance, if you add a hostname entry to the 
NetInfo database, would it show up if getaddrinfo somehow bypasses 
lookupd?

I did the experiment myself (but then, I don't have the problem), and I 
did notice that items that come from flat files or NetInfo take only 
0.001 second on average, while items that come from DNS take about 25 
times longer (0.025 seconds +/- 0.005 seconds).
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