> On startup, polipo tries to determine its own hostname by calling
> gethostname, gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr.

Yep.  You can avoid that by setting proxyName in your config file.

> gethostbyname was issuing DNS requests but the router was not issuing
> any response. gethostbyname timed out each request after 10s, and
> retried 6 times, for a total of 60s. Polipo blocks during this process.

The DNS server should send a negative reply for an unqualified name it
doesn't recognise, which should avoid a timeout.  Something's seriously
broken somewhere.

-- Juliusz

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