From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] automatically retrying network connections
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:29:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKDRQS44-Fbo7V0UuWmFANtzv2GK=P2w2xO_m0fhQ3GBW_r+vA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k1pnqywq.fsf@gnus.org>
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> 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.
>
He's just pointing out one of the MANY functions in emacs that allows
you to look up an IP address. I've found at least 4, and we now
introducing the 5th and 6th...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-22 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-20 20:06 [RFC] automatically retrying network connections Robert Pluim
2018-07-21 15:21 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 10:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 14:28 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 16:44 ` Michael Albinus
2018-07-22 23:24 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 11:18 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 11:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:29 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong [this message]
2018-07-23 7:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-07-22 10:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 10:41 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 10:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 14:08 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-22 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 13:32 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-22 13:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:27 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-23 8:23 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-23 20:57 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
2018-07-22 13:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-22 13:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 23:26 ` Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
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