Re: Name resolution limits
Re: Name resolution limits
- Subject: Re: Name resolution limits
- From: jud spencer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:32:02 -0800
On 2/7/02 5:20 PM, "Josh Graessley" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Using any name resolver APIs on X, you can only get 1 lookup at a time per
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process.
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There are a few problems:
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1) The resolver APIs are blocking, so you can have no more than one lookup
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per thread at any given time.
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2) The resolver APIs are not thread safe, so you can only have one thread
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performing a lookup.
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This gives you a limit of one lookup per process. Since the OpenTransport
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APIs just map to the built-in resolver APIs, it has the same limitation.
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On Mac OS 9, I believe there was no hard limit on the number of simultaneous
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lookups. Available memory was the only limitation.
Are there any other routines that I can use to get around this limitation?
Or is the problem inherent to all OSX networking.
Is it possible to write these routines myself using OT? I haven't read the
RFC's for these items.
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