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