> > This is what glibc-2.0.6 gethostbyname() does.
> >
> > socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3
> > connect(3, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53),
> > sin_addr=inet_addr("204.178.40.210")}, 16) = 0
>
>
> > It takes time to establish a connection. Looking at the glibc-2.0.6 code
> > I see that the 'connection' is a trick to get a 'connection-refused'
>
> The UDP connect code is just internal book-keeping not a connection over
> a network. So its one, fast, syscall
>
Yes, I see it normally takes 23 microseconds on this machine except
when there are the long pauses, at which time it takes about 500
milliseconds.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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