Re: Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)

1998-10-11 Thread Michael Shields
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On reading this paper, I discovered all of the reasons for why I knew that the M$ way is wrong. Interesting, then, that Mr Lampson now works for Microsoft. http://www.research.microsoft.com/lampson/33-Hints/WebPage.html --

Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)

1998-10-07 Thread Ian Jackson
I didn't much like libresolv, so I decided I would write a stub resolver. In particular, it will make it much easier to make DNS queries for various kinds of record and get the information you actually wanted, and it will be useable asynchronously (ie in programs with a select loop). I'm halfway

Re: Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)

1998-10-07 Thread Marc Singer
I'm halfway through implementation, but it occurred to me that some people might like to comment on my proposed API. So, below you'll find a prototype of the header file. You'll notice I haven't given it a proper software licence yet, but the library itself will be GPL'd. If you have some

Re: Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)

1998-10-07 Thread Mark W. Eichin
You might look at the ares library (Asynchronous RESolver) that Greg Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... athena-dist.mit.edu:/pub/ATHENA/ares/ares-0.3.0.tar.gz is the current version. (At very least, compare notes with him...) _Mark_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)

1998-10-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Mark W. Eichin writes (Re: Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)): You might look at the ares library (Asynchronous RESolver) that Greg Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... athena-dist.mit.edu:/pub/ATHENA/ares/ares-0.3.0.tar.gz is the current version. (At very least

Re: Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)

1998-10-07 Thread Marc Singer
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 05:29:48PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Mark W. Eichin writes (Re: Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)): You might look at the ares library (Asynchronous RESolver) that Greg Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... athena-dist.mit.edu:/pub/ATHENA/ares