Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

>     (dns-query NAME &optional TYPE FULLP REVERSEP)
>
>     Query a DNS server for NAME of TYPE.
>     If FULLP, return the entire record returned.
>     If REVERSEP, look up an IP address.
>
> which you could use instead of 'nslookup' or 'getaddrinfo' (although
> 'dns-query' can also punt to 'nslookup', so maybe getaddrinfo is
> better).

getaddrinfo is probably a lot better.  `dns-query' isn't that good at
retries and the like, if I remember correctly.

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