----- Original Message ----- From: "Stipe Tolj" <tolj@wapme-systems.de> Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 9:23 PM Subject: 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?! Well thats probably a good reason to leverage the squid library :].. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/