Req #12802 [Com]: gethostbyname/gethostbyaddr timeout

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=12802&edit=1 ID: 12802 Comment by: zach dot bailey at pardot dot com Reported by: cheapsalsa at yahoo dot com Summary: gethostbyname/gethostbyaddr timeout Status: Assigned Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *General Issues PHP Version: * Assigned To: pajoye Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Please, please, please consider adding this. It's a huge scalability/performance issue anytime a call out to an external service is not bounded with a timeout. PHP users are having to resort to ridiculous workarounds to something that should be built into the core language. It's unfathomable that PHP has functions like the ability to get the time that the sun will rise for a certain date and location but it can't be bothered with having a timeout on an extremely common function. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-09-25 12:34:49] tyrael@php.net any progress on this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-19 02:06:51] pajoye@php.net It will be available when committed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-19 01:37:47] tyra3l at gmail dot com can I access that implementation from userspace right now? if there is a way, then it's fine for me as is, but I wouldn't dare to change the current implementation of those functions. so maybe the best would be to add new userspace functions for the async behaviour. Tyrael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-19 01:07:41] pajoye@php.net We have an implementation, only a matter of using it instead of get*. I have some patch for that, adding some features for the DNS APIs. It should be easy to modify this function while being at it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-11-19 00:53:25] tyra3l at gmail dot com maybe we could use some non-blocking dns library? http://c-ares.haxx.se/ Tyrael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=12802 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=12802&edit=1