[getdns-api] async comments (0.268)

[Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)]

On 2/5/13 8:05 AM, "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam at gmail.com> wrote:

>The one part of DNS lookup that I think departs from this model is the
>fact that it is often desirable to throw out multiple DNS queries at the
>same time.

Yes, that's the reason for the whole thing.  If I have to have a thread
blocked for every outstanding DNS request, there are a bunch of my
applications that do not scale adequately, both client- and server-side.

-- 
Joe Hildebrand