Re: [Gaim-devel] Resolving IP addresses in Gaim

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 8/21/06, Ethan Blanton <ebl...@cs...> wrote:
> I remain in opposition to this change, on the principle that it is bad
> design, but I am not going to get in a long debate over it; if no one
> else understands or cares that it's bad design, then let it be bad
> design.  In this instance, the complexity of the code in the
> subservient thread can be kept under control such that the usual
> concerns about threading behavior can be minimized.

Probably no surprise to anyone, I agree with Ethan.

Considering the DNS lookup code is already written, tested, and
stable, I see no compelling reason to screw around with it too much
now, but I'm not too particularly concerned.

Really, we should just extend our SRV lookup code to handle A records
asynchronously.

-s.