Re: Sort-of Announce: Gnet, a network library

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 6 Jan 2000, Vandoorselaere Yoann wrote:

> Ummm calling fork() to do a gethostbyname instead of rewwriting
> gethostbyname to operate asynchronously is dirty and slow...

It's a lot cleaner than trying to reimplement all of gethostbyname() - you
can't just implement the DNS protocol and hope to achieve the equivalent
of gethostbyname() functionality.

libgnomeui/gnome-dns already implements this type of functionality, with a
dynamic server pool, and it is there and works.

-- Elliot
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