Bill,
From the layer 7 point of view, I don't see what DISCOVER
would offer in addition to getaddrinfo(). The library
I'm thinking of would also have to handle reachability
checking - and as John said, would ideally also be stateful
to avoid repeating the same timeouts.
Brian
On 2008-01-06 11:45, Bill Manning wrote:
the IETF has refused to adopt the DISCOVER opcode for
the DNS - which pretty much handles this problem. Others
may have developed other techniques.
--bill
As Phill H-B has implied more than once, there's scope
for a library on top of the socket API that takes care
of this once and for all. Does anyone have such a library?
Brian
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