On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Andy Parker <a...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Wil Cooley <wcoo...@nakedape.cc> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Charlie Sharpsteen
>> <ch...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Could you provide a bit more information on what the entry in your
>> /etc/hosts file looked like? It would be interesting to reproduce this
>> behavior and see if everything is functioning as intended.
>>
>>
>> Sure; in my /etc/hosts I had the following for my host-only vbox net:
>>
>> 192.168.56.1   coolair.local coolair
>>
>> With that in place:
>>
>> $ time ruby -rsocket -e "Socket.gethostbyname(Socket.gethostname)"
>> real 0m10.013s
>>
>> And when I change it to:
>>
>> 192.168.56.1 coolair
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> $ time ruby -rsocket -e "Socket.gethostbyname(Socket.gethostname)"
>> real 0m0.032s
>>
>> After a little tracing, it looks like it's the result of loading
>> webrick in puppet/util/monkey_patches.rb:
>>
>> /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/puppet/util/monkey_patches.rb:419::-: require
>> 'webrick'
>>
>> Which was added in ec462b7b: (#18781) Be more tolerant of old clients
>> in WEBrick server
>>
>
> Thanks for tracking it down to that. Charlie and I traced it a bit further
> and found that inside webrick it loads webrick/config.rb which sets up a
> hash that contains the servername that is determined by calling
> WEBrick::Util.getservername which does these reverse lookups. That explains
> the mystery of simply loading some code causing a DNS lookup to occur.
>
> Looking at that patch, I'm not certain if we should simply revert it or
> move that to another place in the code. My current thinking is that we
> should simply revert it because it is only needed to support 2.6 and
> earlier clients, which Puppet 3 does not support anyway (the policy is that
> a master only supports one "major" version back for agents, and in the case
> of 2.6 and 2.7 that means only 2.7 is supported, not 2.6).
>

Filed as https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20901 and targeted for 3.2.2


>
>> Since this is just twiddling a constant (does that count as
>> monkey-patching?), wouldn't this maybe be better done in
>> lib/puppet/network/http/webrick.rb? If I understand it correctly,
>> these monkey-patches get applied for every invocation of puppet, even
>> if it's just "puppet --version", so it seems like it should be as
>> minimal as possible.
>>
>> For that matter, the two previous sections that monkey-patch openssl
>> seem like they would be better off elsewhere; for example, the section
>> "if Puppet::Util::Platform.windows?" that starts on line 398 seems
>> like it might be better off somewhere in lib/puppet/util/windows*.
>>
>> (Sorry to gripe w/o a patch; I haven't a Windows system to test on nor
>> do I know if I have a working setup for running the Puppet unit
>> tests.)
>>
>> Wil
>>
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>
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