From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@...>
Date: 2004-02-23T01:19:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Webrick slow when running on a stand-alone system

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:45:42PM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
> I've developed a small app for a laptop using Webrick.  It serves pages to
> a local browser.  It works great when the laptop is connected to the
> internet.  But when then laptop is running without an external network
> connection it runs very slowly, with long pauses before serving a page. I
> am guessing it is trying to do some kind of lookup and is timing out.  Is
> there a way to disable that behavior.
> 
> The problem is occuring on a Windows 98 box running Ruby 1.8.1 (with the
> included Webrick).

My guess would be it's doing a reverse lookup for a PTR record
based on ip address so it can log it by name.  Just a guess,
though, since I've not used webrick.



-matt

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