On 07/05/2012 07:19 PM, Eric H. Jung wrote:
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Zippy Zeppoli <[email protected]>wrote:
It's my understanding that DNS resolution, caching, and failover are all
handled at the operating system layer, not the application layer.
gethostbyname(), getaddrinfo(), etc. are the APIs through which
applications retrieve DNS info.
This is true now, but we're seriously looking into incorporating a DNS
resolver into the browser so we have more control over performance and
features. It's likely that we'll move on that front in the not very
distant future...
Jason
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