[Pythonmac-SIG] socket.getaddrinfo problems

[Eric Nieuwland]

Jack and all,

Doesn't this imply that the Mac version of some socket methods would 
better use lookupd?

--eric

On 19-apr-04, at 22:19, Jack Jansen wrote:

> 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).
> --
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
> If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma 
> Goldman
>
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