Subject: Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?!
From: "Robert Collins" <[email-masked]>
To: "Stipe Tolj" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:29:10 +1000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stipe Tolj" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
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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