winapi for resolving domains?

no tl;dr here, if ur a programmer then you know how to fucking read you jackass.

i don't know much about this problem except that i've only ever seen it in MSIE and Firefox on Windows systems. i've never seen it on any unix-like or posix systems. and i've never programmed anything using winapi or any windows framework so i know nothing of them.

basically, always when firefox goes to resolve a dead hostname, it completely locks up, the interface becomes white if i try to do stuff at the same time and i have to wait for what i assume is a dns lookup timeout period before i can even USE the browser again.

why is it doing this? is windows so single threaded that it can't even run a dns resolution in a seperate thread?

i've always wondered about this but never asked anyone online about it and i can't find anything about it on google either. but it is kinda hard searching for something like that.

it's not an issue i care about because i only use windows at work but it has always interested me because it seems to be a huge limitation in either windows or in these browsers.

for example, right now a web hosting service i use for some websites is moving locations and the name servers are down for a while. i used to work at the very same company a few years back so i know a lot about their name servers. regular bind, freebsd. i even helped set them up and made the control panel for their interface.

if i try to visit one of the pages they host now, firefox completely locks up for 30-50 seconds before i can use it again.

and this is of course not the first time, sometimes when my customers give me e-mail addresses and i'm not sure if i heard them right i go to look it up, easiest way at work is in firefox. if i heard the wrong domain, firefox locks up for half a minut almost before i can use it again.

i've asked around at work and several people have noticed this behaviour but i'm the only one who never uses windows privately so i guess i'm not used to it.

no tl;dr here, if ur a programmer then you know how to fucking read you jackass.
stopped reading right there

>>2
but you still replied and didn't even sage it, how thoughtful.

>>3
saging the top thread is pointless. I actually did read it, and have never noticed  the problem myself, but I was trying to point out your rather blunt style.

I've never had that problem, you jackass.

I can't find shit, maybe someone else will.

It's probably something specific to your workplace's setup.

>>4
saging a thread is not possible. bumping the top thread is pointless.

>>8
Hello Zen Sagemaster

I really can't imagine I give a fuck about you're inability to operate you're own computer.  tl;dr, dt;bu, sageru;pantsu

Perhaps OP-san should figure out the problem from scratch instead of thinking of something it could be (but completely isn't) and trying to solve it like it's that.

you jackass
Stopped reading right there.

>>12
Stop
Stopped reading right there.

>>1
[quote]is windows so single threaded that it can't even run a dns resolution in a seperate thread[/quote]

and you call yourself a programmer

>>14
lol well if you would remember DOS you would get the reference. but i guess sarcasm doesn't transfer well to message boards.

but i guess sarcasm doesn't transfer well to message boards.
or it could be that trying to think with the contents of your lower intestine (your grandmother's cock) rather than the contents of your skull doesn't impress anyone here.

>>16
But if his grandmother had a cock, she would be his grandfather, therefore your statement is logically inconsistent.

>>15
As a matter of fact I do remember DOS.  Background threads were trickier, DNS was nonexistent, and you're `sarcasm' was still nonsense.

Run you're own DNS servers, problems solves.

>>1
If you DNSClient service running disable it. Otherwise enable it.
report the difference.
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>>19
I'm own DNS servers?

>>21
You need to learn to English.
You obviously don't have a good grasp on our language.

>>22 I don't have to. Its obvious from context. you DNSClient->your DNSClient



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>>23
i wasn't talking to you, i was talking to >>21.
>>21 seems to think that:
Run you're own DNS servers, problems solves.
is somehow incorrect.

>>24
IHJBT

>>24 Run your 'own DNS servers' is like telling people to 'install Linux' when all they lack was a simple fix.



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These people are obviously freaks.

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