From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-07-02T02:38:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Networking: select() blocks for seconds (> timeout)


>    It is stunning to think that a 'recvfrom' on a socket (done after the 
> 'select' signaled that there data ready to be read in the queue for that 
> socket) might go off doing reverse dns queries (instead of just 
> returning the packet).

Agreed.  Thankfully with 1.9.2 this is no longer the default.

> Also, I did not see anything pointing to this in the link you provided 
> (I read the whole page and the only place where it mentions 'reverse dns 
> queries' is when issuing 'gethostbyname').

Agreed.
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