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diff --git a/dns/linux-c6-libasyncns/pkg-descr b/dns/linux-c6-libasyncns/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..36b59b4cd45c --- /dev/null +++ b/dns/linux-c6-libasyncns/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +libasyncns is a C library for Linux/Unix for executing name service queries +asynchronously. It is an asynchronous wrapper around getaddrinfo(3), +getnameinfo(3), res_query(3) and res_search(3) from libc and libresolv. + +In contrast to GNU's asynchronous name resolving API getaddrinfo_a(), +libasyncns does not make use of UNIX signals for reporting completion of name +queries. Instead, the API exports a standard UNIX file descriptor which may be +integerated cleanly into custom main loops. + +In contrast to asynchronous DNS resolving libraries like libdenise, skadns, +adns, libasyncns is just an asynchronous wrapper around the libc's synchronous +getaddrinfo() API, which has the advantage of allowing name resolution using +techniques like Multicast DNS, LDAP or NIS using standard libc NSS (Name +Service Switch) modules. libasyncns is compatible with IPv6 if the underlying +libc is. + +libasyncns is very tiny, consisting of just one header and one source file. It +has no dependencies besides libc. + +WWW: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libasyncns/ |