Re: Blocking DNS lookup on MC startup

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> 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() :(

Another solution would be to delay the samba lib initialization until the 
first samba request. This way it will be clearly visible for the user that 
the hang is due to a samba request. Of course the initialization must be
made interruptable.

Opinions ?