dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

Thu Mar 1 22:09:45 UTC 2012

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> I think that the modern set of getaddrinfo and connect is actually not that complicated:

Owen,

If took you 50 lines of code to do
'socket=connect("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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