DNS , file length, and other async issues.

[Norman Maurer]

2011/10/21 808131 <808131 at gmail.com>:
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>>
>> IO-Worker-Thread not blocked.
>>>
>>> The same is true for DNS stuff.
>>>
>>> There is also a async DNS provider called dnsjnio which use dnsjava.
>>> This allows you todo DNS queries in a non-blocking manner.
>>>
>>>
>> I was looking at dnsjava (which seems to be as old as time)  ... I'll have
>> to take a look at this.
>>
>>
> dnsjava does look a bit old but that's mainly because it's very stable. You
> could write a basic implementation from scratch to avoid the dependency but
> if that's not a problem I wouldn't consider it. I would guess that the
> quickest approach would be to try to get dnsjnio and netty working together.
>
> I have experimented with using netty and dnsjava and was hoping to add it to
> netty connection initialization but I probably won't have time this month.
> There might not be much to it though!
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>

Exactly... Why write from scratch if there is something working out
there which is BSD licensed ;)

Bye,
Norman