| Subject: | Failed name lookups slow server |
When Net-HTTPServer-1.1.1 is unable to determine the name of the client
(via gethostbyaddr), service of each request is delayed by several
seconds. Pages with multiple sub-requests are particularly affected.
Perl 5.10.0 under both Windows (Vista Ultimate SP1 x32) and Linux
(Ubuntu 8.10).
I do not have a patch to *fix* the "bug" -- it would be nice to cache
results and I'm not sure how failures should be represented -- so I'm
reluctant to submit what I've done as a patch, but I have found the line
where the call is made and replaced it with a static string:
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< my $hostname = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET);
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> my $hostname = "skipped";#gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET);
(That line number is without the binmode patch. Look for the line a
little below a comment block that includes "# Profile the client".)