On Thursday, November 8, 2012 12:45:25 AM UTC+1, Ben Noordhuis wrote: > > * While HTTP traffic is event-driven, the initial DNS lookup is done > from inside the thread pool. That's because we use getaddrinfo(3) > instead of c-ares, mostly because the latter doesn't support things > like mDNS (think Bonjour, Avahi, etc.). I may switch it to > getaddrinfo_a(3) on Linux someday but other platforms will keep on > using the thread pool. >
Hey Ben, let's amend that a little more. I also plan to use the overlapped variant of GetAddrInfoEx on version 8 / server 2012 of a particular operating system. This would make DNS lookups fully async. - Bert -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
