Re: InetAddress classes

[Marc Boris Dürner]

On Saturday 27 December 2003 23:02, you wrote: 
>       I think it makes sense to split the numeric IP address 
> handling and the DNS services. InetAddress objects encapsulate both 
> things. Apart from internal design -which does not affect the CC++ 
> interface-, are there applications which may benefit from isolated 
> access to these services? 
 
Dont know if there is an imediate win. I just thought it might be cleaner
especially when 
we start implementing Inet6, IPX etc addresses. 
In the c-library a InetAddress is only a 4 bytes address not a url. 
 
>       If there were support for asynchronous DNS resolving (like in 
> GNU adns), a separated class/hierarchy Resolver would be very 
> interesting to add. 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 01:06:48AM +0100, "Marc Boris Dürner" wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > I am looking at the InetAddress class and the derived ones right now. 
> > 
> > - shouldnt (or could?) the gethostname stuff be in a class Resolver?
That 
> > way resolving 
> > and raw IP handling would be separated. Does this make sense? 

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