[Libevent-users] Re: Six patches for evdns.c

[Niels Provos]

I submitted the rest of the patches to the subversion repository.

Thank you again,
 Niels.

On 5/28/07, Niels Provos <provos at citi.umich.edu> wrote:
> On 5/28/07, Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net> wrote:
> > 02-no-timeout-on-failure.diff
> >
> >    As written, when a nameserver fails quickly, we would set a timeout
> >    and not actually acknowledge the failure until the timeout had
> >    elapsed.  This isn't necessary, and tended to delay actual retries
> >    unnecessarily.  [I'd appreciate review on this one.]
>
> We need a test for this one.  It looks like the main difference is
> that the timeout is no longer added.  However, many callers of
> evdns_request_transmit seem to ignore the return code.  So, it seems
> that the whoever made the dns request might never get the callback.
>
> Niels.
>