It might be worthwhile to snarf some code from (Free)BSD to also deal
with ceases like 10.2 == 10.0.0.2 and similar 'abbreviations'.
Dw
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> with a small number of vhosts configured, it takes ages for the server to
> start. the bottleneck is alloc_listener() -> apr_sockaddr_info_get() ->
> getaddrinfo() call with the default "0.0.0.0" address. this patch avoids
> the lengthy lookup time and the server fires up right away. could this be
> done for any hostname that is an ip address (looks_like_ip(hostname)) ?
> any other suggestions welcome, the current server startup time is
> unbearable, especially behind a slow dialup line.
>
> --- srclib/apr/network_io/unix/sa_common.c 2001/07/23 16:05:00 1.36
> +++ srclib/apr/network_io/unix/sa_common.c 2001/07/23 21:36:43
> @@ -341,7 +341,12 @@
> char num[8];
>
> memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
> - hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME;
> + if (strcmp(hostname, "0.0.0.0") == 0) {
> + hints.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICHOST;
> + }
> + else {
> + hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME;
> + }
> hints.ai_family = family;
> hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
> hints.ai_protocol = 0;
>
>
>
