533672 - startup can hang with dns timeouts in nsProfileLock

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 433665

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

There are cases where the resolver library cannot find an IP for a name. This would cause hanging of startup until the DNS timeout has been reached (60 seconds usually).

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/profile/dirserviceprovider/src/nsProfileLock.cpp#338

PR_GetHostByName() blocks during the timeout.

After all that seems to be pretty old code which should be revisited.
I'm not sure if the IP address is the right choice at all.
So I see two possible solutions:
- don't use an ip address but probably just the hostname
- get an ip address without asking DNS

Comment 1

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

wow, I have to dupe my own two bugs ;-)