On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> 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.
>

Didn't I see somewhere a Node DNS library written in pure Node? That might
be useful...

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