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Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:26:27 -0500
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
The simpler approach and perfectly viable without mucking up what is already implemented and working: Don't keep returns from GAI/GNI around longer than it takes to cycle through your connect() loop immediately after the GAI/GNI call.
The even simpler approach: create an AF_NAME with a sockaddr struct that contains a hostname instead of an IPvX address. Then let connect() figure out the details of caching, TTLs, protocol and address selection, etc. Such a connect() could even support a revised TCP stack which is able to retry with the other addresses at the first subsecond timeout rather than camping on each address in sequence for the typical system default of two minutes. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside comĀ bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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- Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ? Michael Thomas (Mar 01)
- Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ? David Conrad (Mar 01)
- Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ? William Herrin (Mar 01)
- Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ? Owen DeLong (Mar 01)
- Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ? Mark Andrews (Mar 01)