On 6/21/12 12:11 PM, Dan B. wrote:
and someone else mentioned doing name resolution without going through
normal OS service calls.
That sounds like a bad idea: If the browser resolves names differently
from how everything else on the system (host/nslookup, ping, ssh,
mailers, ftp, etc.) resolves names (well, excluding the common browser
case of treating a name that is unresolvable as a host name to be a
search term), that's going to be really confusing.
It'll be confusing, but the fact of the matter is that the "OS service
calls" are pretty broken for cases when you might have more than one
hostname to resolve and might care about doing other things at the same
time (like in a browser, say). There's pretty extensive discussion
about the details elsewhere, but I fully expect we will end up with our
own DNS resolver in the next 12-18 months, since none of the OSes in
question are planning to improve the APIs they offer...
-Boris
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