On Nov 19, 1:22 pm, jhaagmans <jaap.haagm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Fred, > > Thanks for your response. I hope you can answer three questions about > this. > > - Why is it that pharrington's example did work, even though the hosts > he used (I copied them) were never resolved before on my server? I > should have had the same problem, right? > maybe, maybe not - not sure what varies between different dns lookups.
> - I've used net-dns before because what I really want to do is check a > domain for existence in the DNS-records of a certain server. However, > the problem with this is that because of the TTL, when I query a > domain every hour, a domain that has been deleted from the DNS doesn't > really get deleted from the "visible" records for 4 - 24 hours. That's > something I really need to work around, do you have an idea how I can > get that to work? Are you really working around it by using net/http ? > > - Why is it that most of the logged messages are 10 seconds apart? > That should tell me something, but I'm unsure what. > Is this still inside backgroundrb or have you managed to reproduce this outside background rb ? Fred > Thanks again. > > Jaap > > On 19 nov, 14:07, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 19, 11:00 am, jhaagmans <jaap.haagm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm a little further on this. I've started logging the process instead > > > of writing to ActiveRecord. This is my code: > > > As you can see, it does do -some- threading, but it finishes requests > > > only once every 10 seconds or so. What am I doing wrong? pharrington's > > > example works for me, but this one doesn't. > > > Some things can block the entire ruby VM - you may be falling foul of > > one of them. In particular, domain name resolution can do that (there > > is a pure ruby dns resolver which doesn't have that caveat) > > > Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=.