Use of pool servers reveals unacceptable crash rate in async DNS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>:
> > What would you do if we discovered a case where we wanted it?
> 
> Cry a lot.  Then add logic to force synchronous DNS when memlocking is
> selected, and document this as a workaround for a bug we haven't fixed yet.

Ugh.  Our options have just narrowed.  I've just seen

libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
Aborted (core dumped)

with memlock off in the build.

I think the homebrew async-lookup code has to go.  Even if we installed
the warmup fix, I don't think I'd trust it.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>