From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:43:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87sh4dfz8r.fsf@gmail.com> <87bmazfrhf.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532259703 5420 195.159.176.226 (22 Jul 2018 11:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:41:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 22 13:41:39 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fhCk7-0001Id-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:41:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhCmD-0004lA-PS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:43:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33511) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhClY-0004l5-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhClV-00048l-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:58017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fhClV-00048Z-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.221.165.getinternet.no ([84.212.221.165] helo=stories) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fhClS-0001ax-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:43:04 +0200 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEXAu61AWH7g0abj1awp Q2kSEhfl2bFkb4WPkpjx68/QWlioAAACY0lEQVQ4jVWUTWvjMBCGp1lwlFsFXpzj4ly6t2KD7wGF /oGEXg0GUd8aNiDvTS5LNb3lFPC/3VeSlaRDcBI9ejWaL1Ndl8mY069NuSFdV/M/Z+N37a0i3c0S XpQ30NTUzAp3PbHc1LXuyBhmpvLeAJqOFOwA26vBsF2k0zrayoGP6s+zcOMubHgxYQMVhmmpPjpd scmDNhqZwTZv6sem+sXuO2Dbv/mrnglH3ggNTFNLi8XvqRVGqt0N2GzSuiQG8JJEiG12yfrnB/XV krg7DKAnolGpNb6Ek/msoXfq34RElNvCQmKMjHejApcacx+/evGEcesA1JCJJUCu8q3NiCwlIIsj IlNSrp3VGo4SUFspA/iaYLpvrwAGIosp2gV3TgCaWQAJEpDvZuDXZR/3Cx5Dlj2QgwWIgtaZcfsz Oe8nx+soICYX0oIKyjUcLh/jOgCH0Ek6uV7hBPi+eIFjlsE5LwvzdzqT35+FZPmPQgWtmFZzBFh3 oZ34dKDRTskuPv8FWyZhDOpxBefP6XL0ZQE4IptpvRWry1IO7wBwg76aJe1g+/NoDAA8ScRRZDoA LInVWeLpUHof4LuOdSDKpvbhUThfdxRKFugtwUTgLdGnOKmYXemRsbRCmMgI0Wm/OyiaqyHXvvFa Mfjotnkuab+PBSlspoVPlRl3r0fEkXrVz4UsiuFJHHc4RFHlE3dKjfn6L/Uo6Ubrzs9nzOBtDLQ3 TK4QH3H+/AnokwhKtOY8mH7K8WYoZ3BbbTQemzqATodtGPDGO2xq/06ICl1WZQUYHd6DLj6beJP6 6uOb1VW1qcr/8jdZH6A2jWcAAAAASUVORK5CYII= In-Reply-To: <87bmazfrhf.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:18:52 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227659 Archived-At: Robert Pluim writes: > (dns-query NAME &optional TYPE FULLP REVERSEP) > > Query a DNS server for NAME of TYPE. > If FULLP, return the entire record returned. > If REVERSEP, look up an IP address. > > which you could use instead of 'nslookup' or 'getaddrinfo' (although > 'dns-query' can also punt to 'nslookup', so maybe getaddrinfo is > better). getaddrinfo is probably a lot better. `dns-query' isn't that good at retries and the like, if I remember correctly. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no