On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> wrote:

> I have previously described how you can get the same round-trip
>> performance by sending queries for all the chain records at once:
>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsext/current/msg13540.html
>>
>
> That doesn't help a stub resolver much. Do you really want the resolver
> logic of gathering all this data in asynchronous queries to be in libc?


Why not? Check out OpenBSD's libc. It contains a fully asynchronous
resolver. The standard APIs are simply wrappers around their non-standard
async counterparts. Overall I find it much cleaner and simpler than glibc's.

The point is: asynchronism does not necessarily imply complexity.

Simon
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