Feature #6559: Set DoNotReverseLookup to true in Webrick

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE)
• Target version: -

[rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)]

I often find it annoying that it is too slow to test my web applications from VirtualBox because Webrick will try to do reverse lookup and I have set the names directly in the hosts file, so a reverse lookup will always time out.

Also I can't find a simple way for setting this behavior in a global way for all my rubies installed.

Could we please try to improve this behavior? I'm certainly not the first one to complain about this...

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• File webrick.do_not_reverse_lookup.patch webrick.do_not_reverse_lookup.patch added
• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura)
• Target version changed from 1.9.3 to 2.0.0

Here is a patch to disable reverse lookup by default.

I don't think this can be backported to ruby 1.9.3 since it is a behavior change.

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Target version changed from 2.0.0 to 2.6

[rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)]

Would this be possible to be included in 2.2.0?

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Assignee changed from nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura) to naruse (Yui NARUSE)

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Applied in changeset r55881.

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• lib/webrick/config.rb (WEBrick::Config::General):
  disable reverse lookup by default. [ruby-core:45514] [Feature #6559]
  Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup is true by default but WEBrick
  overwrote it.
  patch by Eric Hodel [ruby-core:45527]

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Related to Bug #13007: Webbrick takes 5s to start when machine name looks like a real domain added