[Python-Dev] _socket efficiencies ideas

[Marcus Mendenhall]

On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 09:24 AM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

>
>>>> Sean Reifschneider wrote
>> My first thought is that there should be a local DNS cache on the
>> machine that is running these apps.  My second thought is that Python
>> could benefit from caching some lookup information...
>
> Ick ick. This is putting a bunch of code for a stub resolver into 
> python.
> This stuff is hard to get right - I implemented this on top of pydns, 
> and
> it was a lot of work to get (what I think is) correct, for not very 
> much
> gain.
>
> The idea of either suppressing DNS lookups for all-numeric addresses, 
> or
> some sort of extended API for suppressing DNS lookups might be better,
> but really, isn't this the job of the stub resolver?
>
This is part of the resolver API, via the AI_NUMERIC flags.  I am just 
trying to expose that API to the top level of python.

Marcus

> Anthony
>
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