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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS - gethostbyname_r
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:37:25 +1100
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Yes Squid has a complete non-blocking DNS resolver implementation. RFC 1035
from memory.

It *doesn't* read /etc/hosts, but it talks to the DNS servers directly.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS - gethostbyname_r


> Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > Hi  Dustin,
> >     I'm not sure if this answers your question:
> > If you download the CVS head branch of squid 2.4 it has asynchronous
calls
> > for cygwin already patched in the source. It also uses internal dns
servers
> > so you don't get a dozen external process's.
>
> So does Squid have an implementation of the resolver(3) calls as
> part of the sources? That would be really interesting to extract
> as seperate library for porting several packages like e.g. sendmail.
>
> Corinna
>
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