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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:05:50 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multithread safe gethostbyname() ?
Message-ID:  <E12fRWQ-000GVz-00@fanf.eng.demon.net>
In-Reply-To: <200004120538.WAA17491@sharmas.dhs.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004111813310.81762-100000@pious.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004111813310.81762-100000@pious.yahoo.com>

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Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> wrote:
>
>I think it'd be very useful to have a non-blocking DNS lookup API (one
>which exposes the underlying file descriptor) . Winsock has this. UNIX
>netscape 4.x would freeze half as often if this was done right.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ is nice if you don't mind
the GPL.

Tony.
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f.a.n.finch    fanf@demon.net    dot@dotat.at
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