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

[William Ahern <william@...>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 06:23:41PM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
> 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].

Nice.

> 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.
> 

Are you implying that my library does network I/O poorly? ;)