[Bug-wget] Re: Slow DNS resolve (5 seconds)

[Petr Pisar]

On 2008-11-30, Adrian Grajdeanu <address@hidden> wrote:
> The issue was that even though ipv6 is disabled on the machine, wget is 
> still trying to use it.

This is because IPv6 support in wget is compile-time setting. 

> Some might argue that this should not happen (as 
> in that's a bug!), but based on its impact it may be too low a priority 
> to warrant much fixing effort.
>
One can set AI_ADDRCONFIG flag for getaddrinfo() to filter out useless
DNS queries.

Despite that I don't understand why resolving takes so long. I'd say
it's bug in your DNS resolver or recursive DNS server.

-- Petr