[getdns-api] Priming the cache

[Matt Miller]

On Mar 12, 2013, at 5:39 PM, "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser at gmail.com> wrote:

> This one's a bit of a long shot request, but I really wish the existing
> interfaces could do this so I'll ask for it here.
> 
> A lot of my recent open source projects (e.g., DKIM and its pals) rely on
> getting policy and key information from the DNS.  Being able to run tests
> on the DNS handling code is an important part of comprehensive unit testing
> prior to a release.  Sometimes it's necessary to run such tests on a
> machine without Internet access.  Thus, being able to force data into the
> resolver that later queries will retrieve is an exceedingly useful notion.
> If the resolver has a cache, this is just the ability to go about having a
> test harness prime the cache before issuing queries.

Preloading the cache is a great idea.  I often need similar functionality; and not only for testing purposes!


- m&m

Matthew A. Miller
< http://goo.gl/LK55L >

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