Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <040701c148e2$57d54d10$01000001@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Stipe Tolj" Cc: References: <3BB4604A.13127.3BDEA3F@localhost> <034d01c148c6$b4b108b0$01000001@lifelesswks> <3BB5AF25.752D674E@wapme-systems.de> Subject: Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?! Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:29:10 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Sep 2001 12:36:32.0479 (UTC) FILETIME=[5E969EF0:01C148E3] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stipe Tolj" Cc: 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/