[erlang-questions] Number of dns resolvers

[Konstantin Sorokin]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Geoff Cant <nem@REDACTED> wrote:
> Konstantin Sorokin <kvs@REDACTED> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Geoff Cant <nem@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Konstantin Sorokin <kvs@REDACTED> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> How do I control number of dns resolvers in Erlang VM ? As far as I
>>>> can see by default there are only 4 DNS resolvers (inet_gethost port
>>>> processes) and if my app performs massive DNS lookups in many parallel
>>>> processes then I probably should increase that number, right ? Are
>>>> there any other parameters that I can tweak to increase DNS lookup
>>>> speed ?
>>>
>>> There seems to be an undocumented? kernel configuration parameter
>>> 'gethost_poolsize'::non_neg_integer() that specifies this.
>>>
>>> As an alternative to using the c resolver (the 'native' resolver) you
>>> could use OTP's erlang DNS client - the 'dns' resolver.
>>>
>>> Specifying "{lookup, [dns]}." in your inetrc should do that (and erl
>>> -kernel inetrc '"/some/path/inetrc"'). I don't think there's any
>>> concurrency limit on it except the number of udp sockets you can open.
>>>
>>
>> I tried to use your tip, but without success. Config file I wrote
>> looks like this:
>>
>> {resolv_conf, "/etc/resolv.conf"}.
>> {file, hosts, "/etc/hosts"}.
>> {edns, 0}.
>> {cache_size, 0}.
>> {lookup, [dns]}.
>>
>> and was almost copy-pasted from this page:
>> http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/erlang/doc/apps/erts/inet_cfg.html (7.3
>> User Configuration Example). Nevertheless,
>> when I tried to use it with an Erlang shell, I've got following weird
>> error message:
>>
>> $ erl  -kernel inetrc "'/home/kvs/.erl_inetrc'"
>> {error_logger,{{2010,3,2},{23,40,21}},"inet_config: syntax error in
>> ~s~n",['/home/kvs/.erl_inetrc']}
>> Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.5 [source] [64-bit] [smp:2]
>> [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
>
> You're using Erlang/OTP R12B5, the edns option was only introduced in
> R13 I think. If you drop the 'edns' option it should work in R12.
>

No, it doesn't :(

-- 
Konstantin Sorokin