Sorry, not meaning to be a pest. I haven't received anything from the list since I sent my last reply on this subject, so mainly this is just a test to see if the email didn't actually make it.
-SG ======================== Computer over. Virus = very yes. Seth Grover sethdgrover[at]gmail[dot]com On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Seth Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I've dug into this a little further (as far in as the debugger > seemed to want to let me step in), and have at least got to the point > where the behavior diverges in FreePascal vs. Kylix. > > In FreePascal, the actual call to resolve the host name is on line 688 > of ssfpc.pas, a call to "ResolveName" in GetAddr, a function in > SetVarSin. After this line is executed, I can see the DNS request go > out to my DNS server, which returns back the actual address of the > host name, which gets populated into the in_addr record. > > In Kylix, I end up in sslinux.pas, in GetAddr in SetVarSin, on line > 887, a call to synsock.GetAddrInfo. Unlike the call to ResolveName in > the FreePascal code, stepping over this line in the debugger does NOT > make a request to the DNS server as long as the host in question is in > /etc/hosts. If I take the line out of /etc/hosts, then GetAddrInfo > DOES make a DNS request. > > So that seems to be the difference: In the FreePascal code, > ResolveName is being called, which makes a DNS request whether or not > the entry is in /etc/hosts. In Kylix, GetAddrInfo only makes the DNS > request if the entry is not present in /etc/hosts. > > -SG > > ======================== > Computer over. Virus = very yes. > > Seth Grover > sethdgrover[at]gmail[dot]com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ synalist-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synalist-public
