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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Qt-Addon classes merge
From:       Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-04-20 5:45:07
Message-ID: 200404200745.07967.hausmann () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 20 April 2004 00:20, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> - QDns doesn't do non-DNS, nor does it do IPv6. Meaning that even if it
> worked in our code, asynchronous lookups might yield different results
> from synchronous ones.

I don't think the IPv6 statement is correct. QDns parses AAAA records (not A6, 
but that's trivial to add if you need it) and can connect to IPv4 and IPv6 
DNS servers. I believe that's perfectly sufficient for todays IPv6 usage.

> >> It implements truly asynchronous name-lookup -- not restricting to
> >> DNS alone
> >
> >For what kind of non-DNS name lookup would this be beneficial?
>
> /etc/hosts, NIS, some weirder configurations. The point being that the
> current implementation is inconsistent: synchronous lookups do non-DNS,
> asynchronous ones are DNS-only.

Are there any bugreports of people complaining that their NIS based name 
lookups don't work in KDE? (or similar weird setups) Is this still relevant 
today?

Simon
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