On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:04:35AM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote: > Le 2014-04-29 09:55, Henning Brauer a ?crit : > >> Wouldn't it be better if libasr would run A and AAAA requests in > >> parallel? Whichever response arrives first "wins". > > no, since that gives extremely unpredictable results. > > How about this then: > > - Run both requests in parallel. > - When one response is received, start a short timer (e.g. 200ms or so). > - If the second response is received before the timer expires, sort and > return the results as usual. > - Otherwise, kill the second request and return what you have. > > Simon
I'm still not sure what problem you bare trying to solve. I only see added complexity here. -Otto