Subject: Re: release and A instead of AAAA?

Re: release and A instead of AAAA?

From: Tommie Gannert <tommie_at_spotify.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:11:11 +0100

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> In libcurl we might start doing duplicate calls to
> ares_gethostbyname(), one for AF_INET and one for AF_INET6 and that
> logic gives us duplicated A entries at times! (I hope that our work in
> libcurl will get moved into c-ares later on as a sort of first early
> attempt at a getaddrinfo() function).
Of course, we could add most of the libcurl patch to c-ares instead,
but I would rather not call it GAI as it will not be a compliant
implementation. More like "getaddrinfo_light()."

-- 
Tommie

Received on 2010-12-08