Re: [Dovecot] Proxying to a DNS Name

2010-01-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On di, 2010-01-26 at 10:32 +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote: > Timo Sirainen, 2010-01-25 20:29: > > >>> b) Get some async DNS library from somewhere. > >> I have been looking for that as well recenly, and I stumbled upon the > >> unbound library, part of the unbound project. > > I know there are a few of

Re: [Dovecot] Proxying to a DNS Name

2010-01-26 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Timo Sirainen, 2010-01-25 20:29: >>> b) Get some async DNS library from somewhere. >> I have been looking for that as well recenly, and I stumbled upon the >> unbound library, part of the unbound project. > I know there are a few of them, but I'd prefer to use the system's own > resolver. A few re

Re: [Dovecot] Proxying to a DNS Name

2010-01-25 Thread Andreas Schulze
Hello Timo, > a) Assume "the hang never happens" and just do the blocking lookups. maybe switchable. It's suggested to run a caching dns on every system. In this case a hang realy never happens Thanks Andreas -- Andreas Schulze Internetdienste | P532 DATEV eG 90329 Nürnberg | Telefon +49 911

Re: [Dovecot] Proxying to a DNS Name

2010-01-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 20:22 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 20:53 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > > b) Get some async DNS library from somewhere. > > I have been looking for that as well recenly, and I stumbled upon the > unbound library, part of the unbound project

Re: [Dovecot] Proxying to a DNS Name

2010-01-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 20:53 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > b) Get some async DNS library from somewhere. I have been looking for that as well recenly, and I stumbled upon the unbound library, part of the unbound project. http://unbound.net/documentation/libunbound.html HTH, Mike.

Re: [Dovecot] Proxying to a DNS Name

2010-01-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:58 +0100, Andreas Schulze wrote: > Hello, > > reading the wiki I found > http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy?highlight=(no DNS > resolving) > > I have a setup where the destination of a proxyconnection is an DNS name. > Is there a technical reason

[Dovecot] Proxying to a DNS Name

2010-01-25 Thread Andreas Schulze
Hello, reading the wiki I found http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy?highlight=(no DNS resolving) I have a setup where the destination of a proxyconnection is an DNS name. Is there a technical reason which currently require host= to be an IP address ? -- Andreas Schulze I