6 Aug
2009
6 Aug
'09
5:04 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Florian Weimer wrote:
This doesn't seem possible with current SCTP because the heartbeat rate quickly adds up and overloads servers further upstream. It also does not work on UNIX-like system where processes are short-lived and get a fresh stub resolver each time they are restarted.
Stubs on Unix systems can have long-lived processes that handle the actual lookups, the stub component in the process that calls into the resolver then accesses it via IPC. I.e. the NSCD style approach. regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: As Zeus said to Narcissus, "Watch yourself."