On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:55:42 +0300, David Nadlinger <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 9/12/11 4:11 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
* Currently, reverse hostname lookup functions throw on failure. Such
lookups are not reliable and are expected to sometimes fail, so perhaps
a more appropriate behavior would be to return the requested IP address
unchanged, or a value indicating failure (null or false).
As discussed on IRC, throwing on reverse lookup failure seems very wrong
to me, as it is certainly expected. In my opinion, the best solution
would be to return null (empty string), but I am not certain if it
should still throw if something went wrong during lookup (besides the IP
address not being found).
I'll probably change the current std.socket.toHostAddrString() to behave
like this, as the current behavior is inconsistent (when the
getHostByAddr fallback is used), and I accidentally left it undocumented
anyway.
https://github.com/CyberShadow/phobos/commit/5fac9e2b5d39583235185f36b9e5bd8346be5cf3
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Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:[email protected]
