From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T15:30:02+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2)

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:52:02 -0500, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:

>Just a SWAG, but. time ruby -rsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")'
>
>is doing a reverse-"DNS" lookup. Might windoze be confused by having
>127.0.0.1 map to three different hostnames in the hosts file?

Tried it. No effect. This is so confusing ...

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com