Re: [ANN] lsocket - Another library for sockets in lua

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great William Ahern once stated:
>
> IMO, a sockets library cannot be non-blocking if the DNS is blocking.
> Queries can often take several seconds to complete, or in some cases, never.
> If you're concurrently servicing 100 or 1000 open connections (or more!),
> blocking on DNS for 5 seconds, or just .5 seconds, is an absolute
> non-starter. I work at a networking appliance and "cloud" company, and this
> happens _all_ _the_ _time_, and almost invariably if the names aren't
> cached. Out-of-bailwick SOAs are the norm, and they dramatically increase
> resolution time.
> 
> I don't have the time to fix the Win32 build (it worked once-upon-a-time),
> but you can try with this library:
> 
> 	http://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/dns.c.html

  Another DNS library is SPCDNS [1].  It's primary purpose is to encode and
decode DNS packets, which makes it rather easy to integrate into a project
with an existing network API instead of it (poorly) handling the network
activity.  And it comes with Lua bindings.

  -spc

[1]	https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS