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To:	"Stipe Tolj" <tolj AT wapme-systems DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?!
Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:29:10 +1000
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From: "Stipe Tolj" <tolj AT wapme-systems DOT de>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?!


> > Win32 has a built in resolver, which cygwin exposes via gethostby*.
If
> > you need async resolving capabilities, you can a) use pthreads or b)
> > roll your own from somewhere else. The squid resolver is in three
parts,
> > 1) A library containing a implementation of the RFC to allow
querying of
> > DNS servers.
> > 2) Client code to make requests to the library, and handle in-squid
> > housekeeping.
> > 3) An IP address->name cache for efficiency.
>
> but you may not be able to query dirrent DNS types (like MX, CNAME,
> etc) using gethostby..() functions?!

Well thats probably a good reason to leverage the squid library :]..

Rob


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