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

Hi Daniel Stenberg,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm so sorry to interrupt this group.

May I know what is the mailing list of the ares DNS resolver group.

Thanks in advance,
Bharath

----- Original Message ----
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
To: c-ares hacking <c-ares_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 2:34:14 PM
Subject: Re: Is ares stack don't retransimit the query by itself when trnsport used is UDP?

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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