On Oct 23, 2013, at 03:32, Joran Dirk Greef <[email protected]> wrote:

> I saw that dns.lookup uses getaddrinfo(3) which shares the thread pool with 
> fs operations (https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/2868) and that the docs 
> mention the following:
> 
> "All methods in the dns module use C-Ares except for dns.lookup which uses 
> getaddrinfo(3) in a thread pool. C-Ares is much faster than getaddrinfo but 
> the system resolver is more constant with how other programs operate. When a 
> user does net.connect(80, 'google.com') or http.get({ host: 'google.com' }) 
> the dns.lookup method is used. Users who need to do a large number of lookups 
> quickly should use the methods that go through C-Ares."
> 
> What exactly does "but the system resolver is more constant with how other 
> programs operate" mean?

Perhaps “constant” is a typo that should actually read “consistent”?

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