Re: DNS Round Robin Handling
Jason Duell <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:22:08 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 07/05/2012 07:19 PM, Eric H. Jung wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Zippy Zeppoli <[email protected]>wrote: > > It's my understanding that DNS resolution, caching, and failover are all > handled at the operating system layer, not the application layer. > gethostbyname(), getaddrinfo(), etc. are the APIs through which > applications retrieve DNS info. This is true now, but we're seriously looking into incorporating a DNS resolver into the browser so we have more control over performance and features. It's likely that we'll move on that front in the not very distant future... Jason