Best strategy for overcoming excessive gethostbyname timeout.

[J Sisson]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:20 PM, r0g <aioe.org at technicalbloke.com> wrote:

> Ahh so close. I set the alarm for 3 seconds and it raises the exception,
> but only after spending 25 seconds seemingly blocked in gethostbyname.
>
> Here's a snippet, just in case I'm doing it wrong!...
>
>
If you're doing many lookups prior to connecting to the machines or
otherwise processing the information, you can create a very simple thread
class to perform just the lookup, store the threads in a list, and poll the
threads in the list so you can deal with the ones that finish first before
moving on to the remaining ones.  You'll still have a 25 second wait for the
last ones to finish, but you can get the majority of the work done earlier
than you would with a single-thread program.

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