From: Brent Rowland <tarod@...>
Date: 2001-02-08T16:04:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10551] Re: threads and resolving names

> I've got a big list of hostnames, and I need to resolve them to
> their IP#.  Many times the authoritative nameserver hangs or
> never answers, and the program waits ~30 seconds before timing out.
>
> I thought if I created a bunch of threads that I could get around
> the problem and would only hang when all threads (100) are hung.
> But that doesn't seem to be the case.  Do I have my threading
> wrong?

Since the operation is blocking the whole process, why not fork?
Something like IO.popen("=","w+")  as shown on page 121 of the pickaxe book.

Brent