Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 13:58:34 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: Peter Haight <peterh@sapros.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyname2 and AF_INET6 Message-ID: <200205131958.g4DJwYtI089130@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 00:10:19 PDT." <200205130710.g4D7AJUn049722@wartch.sapros.com>
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Haight <peterh@sapros.com> writes:
Peter> I'm going to try Terry's solution and try and do concurrent
Peter> lookups. Mozilla is already using pthreads, so I should be
Peter> able to just spawn the two requests in separate threads and
Peter> take the one that comes back first. I may even spawn the IPv6
Peter> one a little earlier to give it a slightly better chance of
Peter> coming back first.
You would do everyone a favour by notifying those sites that don't
handle IPv6 DNS queries properly. In many (most) cases the sites aren't
aware that their DNS software is broken. A quick e-mail will often see
the problem fixed in short order. (bbc.co.uk is a recent example of
this.)
--lyndon
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