Re: merge-similar-outgoing-queries.patch and lame servers

Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote:
> So another possibility is to abstract the udp send/response loop _below_
> dns_transmit, and merge outgoing queries going to the same IP (and with
> the same qtype and query, of course). I didn't want to do it that way
> because dns_transmit is not just part of dnscache, so it would be
> affecting other programs

You could have an alternate implementation of the below-dns_transmit
qmerge interface that doesn't do merging, and link that implementation
into every program other than dnscache.  Not that this is particularly
attractive, either.


paul