On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:02:49AM +0100, Andrew Preater wrote: > * Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-05 01:58]: > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:27:06AM +0100, Andrew Preater wrote: > >> I have a problem with elinks under Cygwin-X on Win2000 SP4. I > >> didn't find anything about it on the list on in the bugzilla, > >> so here I am. :) > >> > >> When I load a url, elinks spends a long time looking up the > >> hostname of the server: it will spend four or five seconds > >> with the message 'Looking up host' in the status bar. > > > > This is reported as bug 691, 'Host lookup is slow', which > > probably should have its summary improved. There is a proposed > > work-around. > > Hi, > > Yes - I tried searching the bugzilla, but it didn't come up with > anything. I was starting to think there *were* no bugs!
Oh, ELinks has _plenty_ of bugs. Seriously, are you saying that the search is broken, or were you just having difficulty because of the poorly-titled report for bug 691? > > I see the I need to update it, and I will do so promptly. > > Please try the work-around and report whether it works along > > with information on your software configuration. > > I've tried it, and it worked perfectly. No hang when loading a > url (any protocol). I pulled elinks from cvs, and made sure I > had revision 1.126 of dns.c. > > [...] Thank you for confirming that the work-around works. Now somebody just needs to backport it so that it will be in the next 0.10 release. -- Miciah Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list [email protected] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
