[91] in bug-owl
Re: hung owl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Sat Sep 21 21:17:40 2002
Message-Id: <200209220117.VAA27897@mission-control.mit.edu>
To: Jeremy Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-owl@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 Sep 2002 17:56:41 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 21:17:39 -0400
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
> I had an owl that seemed to be hung, so I had to kill it. From the
> backtrace it seems to have been looking up an address.
Yeah, that's a problem with doing DNS lookups on the names. It will
timeout after a little while. I'm going to look into using ares or
something clever to try and get around this, but I'm not exactly sure
how it'll work yet.
kretch
