Blocking DNS lookup on MC startup

[Pavel Tsekov]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes. I understood that the first time through. There was a similiar bug
>>> report already.
>>> 
>>>> The question is: why MC is doing DNS queries? Is possible to
>>>> disable them?
>>> 
>>> Maybe someone else is doing those queries. A library linked to MC most 
>>> likely. I've tried to reproduce that many times and I cannot get neither
>>> the slowdown nor those particualr dns lookups for interface names. I
>>> disconnect the network cable and still I am not able to get the described
>>> behaviour.
>> 
>> Ok, I was able to reproduce it - it seems that the slowdown happens only
>> if MC has smbfs support. I'll investigate.


There are more calls to gethostbyname() after the get_myname () call. 
load_interfaces() is doing gethostbyname() for every single value of the
"interfaces" parameter of smb.conf. If interfaces doesn't contain an
ip_address/netmask pair load_interfaces() tries to resolve the value
via gethostbyname() :(