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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DNS cache for Konqueror/KIO
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: 2008-07-07 22:59:17
Message-ID: 200807080059.18478.faure () kde ! org
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On Monday 07 July 2008, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Roland Harnau wrote:
> >According to [1] the addreses returned by getaddrinfo() (glibc
> >version) are ordered:
> >"The important thing to remember here is that the addresses are
> >returned in an order where the first returned address has the highest
> >probability to succeed."
> >
> >[1] http://people.redhat.com/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html
>
> That is true, but the DNS server also does a round-robin ordering of
> addresses to spread the load on identical servers. getaddrinfo() is
> kind-of smart, but it can't tell the difference between two global IP
> addresses of the same version (v4 or v6).
>
> Anyways, since the cache is held per application, this is not a big
> problem -- or a problem at all.
>
> Patch is good, perfectly indented, very clever. Please commit!
Yes but not right now, less than 24 hours before RC1, right?
Or are you 100% sure that this is safe for all users?
Otherwise, as good as this is, it sounds more like KDE-4.2 material to me...
--
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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