From: Victor 'Zverok' Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2008-09-06T18:41:21+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket#initialize slow on Windows

From: rogerpack2005@gmail.com [mailto:rogerpack2005@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 6:53 PM
>
>> 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

Thanks for your help. It seems now the problem somewhere deeper in my
test-cases :-\

BTW, while experimenting I've found resolv not able to resolve LAN names.

BTW2, I've also found ruby1.9's Resolv fails with unicode errors (reading
etc/hosts) on Russian Windows XP :)

V.