Looks interesting :)
> From: Andreas Raab <[email protected]> > Date: July 27, 2010 9:24:16 AM GMT+02:00 > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list > <[email protected]> > Subject: [squeak-dev] [ANN] DnsClient: More protocol fun > Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list > <[email protected]> > > Folks - > > I just finished another fun little protocol implementation. DnsClient is a > client for DNS lookups of all sorts. Why implement the DNS protocol you ask? > Well, because 1) it's fun, 2) it's educational, and 3) it's non-blocking. The > latter is actually interesting, we've found that occasionally we get very > long VM blocking due to synchronous name lookup performed in the Unix socket > code. > > You can install DnsClient from Squeaksource: > > (Installer ss project: 'ar') > install: 'DnsClient-Core'; "all the code" > install: 'DnsClient-Tests'; "the tests" > install: 'DnsClient-Hacks'. "use DnsClient when present" > > DnsClient should work well but beware that on Windows it will currently use > the deefault fallback name servers (Google DNS and OpenDNS) since I still > need to implement the primitive to return the proper resolv.conf content > (which is spread out in the Windows registry). Consequently, if you're trying > look up local names or if you are behind a firewall, these addresses will > fail until I've implemented the primitive proper. > > Cheers, > - Andreas > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
