Re: SRV resolver API?

[mayer@gis.net]

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> 
> > I'd like to suggest that part of the problem -- at least on the Unix
> > side -- is that there isn't a standardized resolver API for SRV. 
> > The IPv6 effort came up with getaddrinfo() and friends in rfc2553;
> > its gone into POSIX as well.  Why haven't we standardized a resolver
> > API for SRV?
> 
> more broadly than that, a full dns client-side api is needed.  we
> drafted one a couple of years ago but couldn't find the funding for
> it.  c and c++ programmers should have the same high level access to
> the dns protocol that perl programmers have (through the excellent
> Net::DNS module).
> 

Paul, is the funding needed for the work to get the standardization
pushed
through the various standards bodies or for the implementation?

Danny

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