[Dovecot] stats plugins causing dns lookup per connection

[Axel Luttgens]

Le 12 mars 2013 à 05:51, Kelsey Cummings a écrit :

> I noticed our imap servers were generating a lot of A record lookups for
> their own IP's the other day and just got around to tracking down the
> source.  Seems like they are all being caused by guid_128_generate() -
> perhaps the lookup could be cached at start up or it could just use make
> use of the hostname rather than spending the effort to get the IP via
> gethostbyname() calls.  The function is used in a few other places too,
> so this might help more than just the stats plugin.

Hello Kelsey,

This one:

	http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-February/088286.html

started for seemingly unrelated reasons, but ended with some form of cacheing of the results fetched with gethostbyname().

Which version of Dovecot are you running?

Axel