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Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?!


> Win32 has a built in resolver, which cygwin exposes via gethostby*. If
> you need async resolving capabilities, you can a) use pthreads or b)
> roll your own from somewhere else. The squid resolver is in three parts,
> 1) A library containing a implementation of the RFC to allow querying of
> DNS servers.
> 2) Client code to make requests to the library, and handle in-squid
> housekeeping.
> 3) An IP address->name cache for efficiency.

but you may not be able to query dirrent DNS types (like MX, CNAME,
etc) using gethostby..() functions?!

Stipe

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