Re: [lwip-devel] RE: [task #7017] Implement DNS client

[Frédéric BERNON]

Uhmmm, I'm not share this point of view about the place of the DNS resolver. 
DHCP, AUTOIP, IGMP, SNMP are in the lwip/core because they need internal 
changes inside the lwIP core. But DNS is a upper level protocol. Even if 
it's the mainly used protocol upper the stack, when/if we provide the socket 
API functions (gethostbyname, etc..), we will got the problem about the need 
to provide a "hostentry" per thread (since a "static" variable should be a 
really dirty solution). That's why I continue to think that DNS should be 
provide in the contrib (to let the port maintainer decide how to provide 
this "hostentry" per thread).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Goldschmidt" <address@hidden>
To: "lwip-devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [lwip-devel] RE: [task #7017] Implement DNS client



Am 02.11.2007 um 23:50 schrieb Jonathan Larmour:

> Frédéric BERNON wrote:
> > I think it's not really linked to to such or such release, but since
> > now, we have put more samples in contrib/apps, having the dns one  should
> > be good.
>
> I would have thought that like SNMP, a DNS resolver would be proper  part 
> of
> the stack, not off to the side.

That was my thought, also.


Simon

_______________________________________________
lwip-devel mailing list
address@hidden
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lwip-devel