dovecot - Mar 2013 - stats plugins causing dns lookup per connection

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.

nscd and/or host entries mitigate the total time spent on the lookup of
course, but it seems unnecessary.

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Kelsey Cummings - kgc at corp.sonic.net      sonic.net, inc.
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Le 12 mars 2013 ? 05:51, Kelsey Cummings a ?crit :
> 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