Stig Venaas wrote: > I would have liked some standard API for looking up SRV records. It's > hard to use SRV in portable applications. In general there is a need for a standard, general purpose API for DNS queries - one that lets you query for arbitrary record types. It also needs to be thread safe and to work in an > > One could possibly extend getaddrinfo() or make something a bit similar. > getaddrinfo() is perhaps already becoming too complex though. A neat > thing with extending getaddrinfo() could be to make existing code use > SRV without changes. Not exactly sure if that is good or not... It's not. And I've heard rumors that some implementations of getaddrinfo() already do this - which is a good reason to not use it at all. Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf