DNS lookups of some (but not all) URLs are extremely slow using
cURL 7.8, but are not slow when using wget:

# wget is nice and fast....

$ time wget -q -O- "http://quote.bloomberg.com/markets/earnings/ecal.cgi" > xxx
real 0m2.511s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.010s

# cURL 7.8 is picking lint from its bellybutton...

$ time curl -s "http://quote.bloomberg.com/markets/earnings/ecal.cgi" > xxx
real 0m31.857s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.000s

# Try numeric IP address with curl to prove the problem is the DNS lookup...

$ time curl -s "http://204.179.240.78/markets/earnings/ecal.cgi" > xxx
real 0m2.402s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m0.000s

Any idea why this is?

Are there any workarounds besides a painful domino-like upgrade of the
RPM and the several co-dependant RPMs (libssl, libcrypto, php)?

-Rick

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I still say awk '{print $1}' a lot. -- Larry Wall