From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-09-06T00:53:17+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket#initialize slow on Windows

> I've kinda tried 127.0.0.1 and it was the same slow... and after I've 
> tried
> your advice and required 'resolv-replace', all things became fast. But 
> then,
> when I commented out "require 'resolv-replace'", they are still fast. 
> I'm
> slightly shocked for now. Are there any explanations, or just it some 
> kind
> of network magic I'll never debug about?
> 
> Anyway, thank you for advice.

Kind of reminds me of OS X 10.5's DNS problems--the first lookup 
sometimes takes 15s, then after that it's cached so it's fast.  Maybe? 
The fix for that on OS X was to switch to opendns name servers.  Not 
sure about XP tho.
-=R
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