[150720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Mar 1 17:11:01 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAC38B59-1F54-4788-87A2-A1A8BE453500@delong.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 17:09:45 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> I think that the modern set of getaddrinfo and connect is actually not th=
at complicated:
Owen,
If took you 50 lines of code to do
'socket=3Dconnect("www.google.com",80,TCP);' and you still managed to
produce a version which, due to the timeout on dead addresses, is
worthless for any kind of interactive program like a web browser. And
because that code isn't found in a system library, every single
application programmer has to write it all over again.
I'm a fan of Rube Goldberg machines but that was ridiculous.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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