Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Lockup on Linux

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From: Warren Young <warren@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:58:31 -0700
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> happens irritatingly often - Ethereal tries to look up the host name,
> calls "gethostbyname()" to look it up, the DNS resolver sends out a
> request, and takes a Good Long Time to time out.

Would it be worth using one of the asynchronous resolver libraries like
adns instead of gethostbyname()?

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