Re: [Python-Dev] making socket.getaddrinfo use cached dns

2011-07-16 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > I don't think moralist arguments should have a weight when deciding > which features we add. If developers want to introduce bugs or > limitations in their software they will always be able to do it. Actually when designing language feature

Re: [Python-Dev] making socket.getaddrinfo use cached dns

2011-07-16 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:59:17 +1000 Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Exposing those flags would > encourage people to do exactly that, and that would be a *really* bad > idea Making DNS resolution configurable (for example by allowing the user to supply their own resolution function) in the stdlib's netwo

Re: [Python-Dev] making socket.getaddrinfo use cached dns

2011-07-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Oleg Broytman wrote: >> Hello. >> >>   We are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on >> developing Python (adding new features to Python itself and fixing bugs); > > Well, it seems

Re: [Python-Dev] making socket.getaddrinfo use cached dns

2011-07-16 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 04:12:45PM +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Oleg Broytman wrote: > >   We are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on > > developing Python (adding new features to Python itself and fixing bugs); > > Well, it seems th

Re: [Python-Dev] making socket.getaddrinfo use cached dns

2011-07-16 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Oleg Broytman wrote: > Hello. > >   We are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on > developing Python (adding new features to Python itself and fixing bugs); Well, it seems this post is about adding a new feature isn't it? Cheers, fijal

Re: [Python-Dev] making socket.getaddrinfo use cached dns

2011-07-07 Thread Oleg Broytman
Hello. We are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on developing Python (adding new features to Python itself and fixing bugs); if you're having problems learning, understanding or using Python, please find another forum. Probably python-list/comp.lang.python mailing list/

[Python-Dev] making socket.getaddrinfo use cached dns

2011-07-07 Thread high bandwidth
I use cached dns lookups with pdnsd on my ubuntu machine to speed up web access as regular lookups can take 15-30 seconds. However, python's mechanize and urllib etc use socket.getaddrinfo, which seems not to be using dns cacheing or taking a long time because of ipv6 lookups. In either case, I sub