Subject: Re: Is ares stack don't retransimit the query by itself when trnsport used is UDP?

Re: Is ares stack don't retransimit the query by itself when trnsport used is UDP?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:04:14 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Bharath Reddy wrote:

> I've a question about ares DNS resolver code.

Please note that this list and project is c-ares, we left ares behind a long
time ago...

> Unlike the present ares code, to overcome this situation ares stack has to
> take care right? Like ares may be retransmit the queries in Exponential
> back-off or the application which is using the ares stack has to take care
> this kind of re-transmission?

Yes, the code should do UDP retransmissions after some kind of timeout. If it
doesn't already, we'll certainly welcome a patch that makes it do it!

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   c-ares -- my preferred DNS asynch resolver library
Received on 2007-11-23