[lwip-devel] [task #15104] DNS: Support look-up of other RR types

[Craig McQueen]

Follow-up Comment #2, task #15104 (project lwip):

I'm adding a patch for my experimental development work on this task. It's
reasonably functional, with the following caveats:

* For mDNS look-ups, only the first response is processed. This is a
limitation that limits its usefulness for DNS-SD queries (e.g. doing a PTR
lookup of _http._tcp.local.). It should be expanded to process multiple
responses, with a timeout and/or a "cancel" function as needed.
* In future, it would be good to add a function specifically for doing reverse
DNS look-ups. E.g. looking up the hostname for 192.168.1.2, it would do a PTR
look-up for 2.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. A flag would be needed to select between
DNS or mDNS.
* I haven't thoroughly reviewed it to consider packet handling for various
faulty/malicious packets.
* This change is functional, but I'm not happy with the readability and
maintainability of the code. I would like to refactor it if possible, to split
it into more succinct, comprehensible and maintainable functions.

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