In article <20041010015432.GA38395@calma.pair.com> you wrote: > OK, so what you're saying is that the C-library has a bug because it isn't > using a non-blocking socket when doing DNS lookups? There are aync resolvers out there like libadns. libc is sync, therefore there is no problem in doing it blocking (besides the performance). Greetings Bernd -- eckes privat - http://www.eckes.org/ Project Freefire - http://www.freefire.org/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html