diff --git a/doc/environment.rst b/doc/environment.rst
index 7761a81..bac62f2 100644
--- a/doc/environment.rst
+++ b/doc/environment.rst
@@ -19,10 +19,3 @@ EVENTLET_THREADPOOL_SIZE
    The size of the threadpool in :mod:`~eventlet.tpool`.  This is an
    environment variable because tpool constructs its pool on first
    use, so any control of the pool size needs to happen before then.
-
-EVENTLET_TPOOL_DNS 
-
-   If set to 'yes', uses :func:`eventlet.tpool.execute` to call
-   :func:`~socket.gethostbyname` and :func:`~socket.getaddrinfo`,
-   making them appear non-blocking.  This environment variable is
-   ignored on OS X.
diff --git a/eventlet/green/socket.py b/eventlet/green/socket.py
index 759e815..095eaaa 100644
--- a/eventlet/green/socket.py
+++ b/eventlet/green/socket.py
@@ -18,46 +18,9 @@ if os.environ.get("EVENTLET_NO_GREENDNS",'').lower() != "yes":
     except ImportError, ex:
         pass
 
-__original_gethostbyname__ = __socket.gethostbyname
-# the thread primitives on Darwin have some bugs that make
-# it undesirable to use tpool for hostname lookups
-_can_use_tpool = (
-    os.environ.get("EVENTLET_TPOOL_DNS",'').lower() == "yes"
-    and not sys.platform.startswith('darwin'))
-def _gethostbyname_twisted(name):
-    from twisted.internet import reactor
-    from eventlet.twistedutil import block_on as _block_on
-    return _block_on(reactor.resolve(name))
-
-def _gethostbyname_tpool(name):
-    from eventlet import tpool
-    return tpool.execute(
-        __original_gethostbyname__, name)
-
-if getattr(get_hub(), 'uses_twisted_reactor', None):
-    gethostbyname = _gethostbyname_twisted
-elif greendns:
+if greendns:
     gethostbyname = greendns.gethostbyname
-elif _can_use_tpool:
-    gethostbyname = _gethostbyname_tpool
-else:
-    gethostbyname = __original_gethostbyname__
-
-
-__original_getaddrinfo__ = __socket.getaddrinfo
-def _getaddrinfo_tpool(*args, **kw):
-    from eventlet import tpool
-    return tpool.execute(
-        __original_getaddrinfo__, *args, **kw)
-
-if greendns:
     getaddrinfo = greendns.getaddrinfo
-elif _can_use_tpool:
-    getaddrinfo = _getaddrinfo_tpool
-else:
-    getaddrinfo = __original_getaddrinfo__
-
-if greendns:
     gethostbyname_ex = greendns.gethostbyname_ex
     getnameinfo = greendns.getnameinfo
     __patched__ = __patched__ + ['gethostbyname_ex', 'getnameinfo']
diff --git a/tests/fork_test.py b/tests/fork_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61ca717
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fork_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+from tests.patcher_test import ProcessBase
+
+
+class ForkTest(ProcessBase):
+    def test_simple(self):
+        newmod = '''
+import eventlet
+import os
+import sys
+import signal
+mydir = %r
+signal_file = os.path.join(mydir, "output.txt")
+pid = os.fork()
+if (pid != 0):
+  eventlet.Timeout(10)
+  try:
+    port = None
+    while True:
+      try:
+        contents = open(signal_file, "rb").read()
+        port = int(contents.split()[0])
+        break
+      except (IOError, IndexError, ValueError, TypeError):
+        eventlet.sleep(0.1)
+    eventlet.connect(('127.0.0.1', port))
+    while True:
+      try:
+        contents = open(signal_file, "rb").read()
+        result = contents.split()[1]
+        break
+      except (IOError, IndexError):
+        eventlet.sleep(0.1)
+    print 'result', result
+  finally:
+    os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)
+else:
+  try:
+    s = eventlet.listen(('', 0))
+    fd = open(signal_file, "wb")
+    fd.write(str(s.getsockname()[1]))
+    fd.write("\\n")
+    fd.flush()
+    s.accept()
+    fd.write("done")
+    fd.flush()
+  finally:
+    fd.close()
+'''
+        self.write_to_tempfile("newmod", newmod % self.tempdir)
+        output, lines = self.launch_subprocess('newmod.py')
+        self.assertEqual(lines[0], "result done", output)