Hello. I need to make AOLserver run DNS lookups (with a seperate thread - to avoid simple DoS attacks :).
The user should ask if a domain exists, AOLserver will call another thread to check it out and refresh the page using some ID of the check. The problem is how do I check it with AOLserver? Is there a chance of plugging Scotty in AOLserver? I could exec host -t NS, but this a bit unsecure and I don't like fork()s :) Any ideas? I thought of writing a separate process for this (and TCP/IP communication) but this isn't what I call 'a nice solution'. -- WK
