@oligauc Have realised thread locking was not what we were after. What we actually want to do is put getaddrinfo in a thread so that if it the DNS lookup takes forever or fails the main program can move on. Unfortunately, this is not what happens, the main program pauses & waits for the thread. https://forum.pycom.io/topic/5295/getaddrinfo in-a-thread

@andreas blobs are a bit beyond my skill set but ai=socket.getaddrinfo(host, 443) is using a socket so I reckon a 5s OSError socket timeout should prevent hangs if someone can figure out how to change the default timeout & recompile. My thread attempt was pretty simple, put getaddrinfo in a thread, wait for 5s in the main program then move on if the thread had not produced a DNS by then. Instead the main program stalled after 1 iteration of the 5s delay loop and waited for the thread.

@robert-hh Thank you, It works like a charm! :)

@livius Thank you so much!!! that's exactly what I needed

Are you sure it is the documentation that is wrong? Isn´t it more natrual to specify timeout in ms?

Hey @livius, that did the trick, again! Thx a lot, that makes even easier the deployment process, and i´ve also learned pretty nice stuff in the meanwhile. By the way, i first tried to make it work by cloning the project 'master' branch, but that code wasn´t making the deal yet. To make things work i had to clone the 'devel' branch (that by the way it´s weird because it´s one version behind 0.9.3 than master 0.9.4). Thx a lot again man, saved my life!