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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:36:05 -0800
From: "Garrett Rooney" <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
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To: "Nick Kew" <nick@webthing.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: APR resolver?
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On 3/29/06, Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 18:36, Rian A Hunter wrote:
> > this was ignorantly sent to dev@httpd
>
> ISTR you had a good reply there, too:-)
>
> > I know there is apr_sockaddr_info_get but this doesn't handle getting m=
x
> > records (or other DNS record types). Should a "resolver" API be added t=
o
> > APR. Actually I think yes and I think I'm going to implement this. Any
> > objections?
>
> Would you plan to do this by adding to the existing apr_network_io
> or by introducing a new module?  At first glance, the first looks best,
> provided it doesn't break back-compatibility.

My primary question is will it just be a wrapper around the system DNS
resolution functions, which would result in blocking calls, or would
it be an implementation of the occasionally-proposed APR async DNS
library.

An async DNS library would be more work, but it's also much more
useful in the long run.

-garrett